Ce lieu, ce moment

CE LIEU, CE MOMENT

This Corner, This Insta

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In Luo’s earlier works memory arrives as image, suspended between lucidity and haze, faithfully replicating the very mechanism by which remembrance inhabits life [1]. Walter Benjamin once observed that “the work of memory—reading oneself backward, he called it—collapses time” [2]; her paintings enact this implosion, folding past into present until both coalesce within a single tremulous now. Executed in a palette of muted greys that is unmistakably her own, each object is suffused with a muted, tender radiance—an echo of the Proustian shimmer in which private recollection is momentarily made visible.

Working at the intersection of cultures, Luo interrogates the dialectic of presence and absence, of the manifest and the latent, of what can and cannot be seen. Clouds, formless yet governed by hidden laws, drift across her canvases; faint traceries beneath the grey disclose an inner order that guides the eye toward the unspoken instant buried beneath consciousness. In this corner, at this moment, the work opens a quiet conversation between here and now.

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[1] Dr. Shen Qilan, Luo Mingjun: Drifting Through Eternity, 2023. 

[2] Benjamin, Walter. One-Way Street and Other Writings. Verso, 1978. “Berlin Chronicle,” p. 12

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Artist

Luo Mingjun

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Exhibition Date

15 August - 15 September 2025

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Venue

Suhe Haus 201, 30 Wen'an Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai