Nov 11, 2025 ~ Feb 11, 2026
When the entire city steps into the art season, the art industry is operating at a familiar, high-speed rhythm—dense openings, frequent social engagements, and condensed art-viewing experiences. Amid this now-familiar hustle and bustle, M Art Center attempts to create a moment of "pause and reflection": at our main venue on 56 Moganshan Road, we present a special exhibition project—"Booth M56." As the name suggests, we have conceived and constructed the gallery itself as a complete "art fair booth." Art fairs, with their efficient pace and concentrated energy, form an indispensable part of the contemporary art landscape. They bring together creativity, spark dialogue, and provide invaluable opportunities for institutions and the public to connect. While we gladly participate in this art season, we also find ourselves contemplating: as a gallery with a permanent space in the local context, can we simultaneously offer an alternative rhythm—a "nearby" that allows the gaze to linger and encourages deeper conversation? Can we create a more unhurried "parallel site," where exchanges, within a familiar physical space, develop a different texture? "Booth M56" is precisely such an exploration. "M56" is not only our geographical anchor since 2007 but also the conceptual pivot of this project. We have invited twelve artists to place their works—diverse in style and medium—within this deliberately constructed "booth" context. Here, each piece maintains its independent expression while also serving as a component in building this "simulated booth" environment. By replicating the spatial atmosphere and visual logic of an art fair, we aim to invite the audience into a realm that is both familiar and unfamiliar—one that bears the shell of an art fair yet retains the inherent essence of an art space. This is not a form of resistance but rather an active act of "sampling" and response. We extract a typical unit...
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