“Never Ever Again” is a catch phrase used to convey the repetitious and endless state of anxiety. It refers to many memories from Kang Jing’s past life experience and serves as a footnote to the internal struggles of my art practice. Ultimately, it works as a comfort to the mind where I remind myself: things should be allowed to return to the purposiveness of nature.

These works, as an extension from the Wood series presented in the previous solo exhibition, “The Past is All Fake,” sum up Kang Jing’s art practice over the last two years.

This exhibition, making use of both art spaces at Mocube, follows the clues drawn from the artificial confines of modern civilization in urban areas. For the first space, there is a series of mock-up artworks in public spaces that are based on the forms tree branches, while referring to the architectural models at real estate sales room. For commercial real estate, the developer often places trees with the buildings to emphasize the degree of greenery which likely brings up its market value. In this series, the trees are not only supplementary to the architecture, but also are the source for the architectural form. In them, we can see that every model corresponds to the sculpture of a small tree, the branches of the latter come from the composition of the former.

In the second space, an installation completed on site will be highlighted, consisting of trees and cement. At the beginning of the exhibition, the primary materials will be kept intact. One week later, we will cast cement according to the natural form of the withered branches and build a structure and model. This fabrication process will also be part of this exhibition, to reveal the fragments of everyday labor, and released through social media platforms, such as Wechat, Tik Tok and Instagram.

The exhibition will continue until July 12, 2020.