A crack in global logistics

A crack in global logistics
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Ash Monix, Proximate, 2025, Markers on window panels, overall dimensions variable, Commisioned by the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai | © Ash Moniz | Photo: Yan Tao

The RAM Museum hosts the first major Asian retrospective of Ash Moniz, a transdisciplinary artist working across video, performance, installation, and sculpture. Titled A Crack in the Shape of Light Getting In, the exhibition offers a powerful and multifaceted look at over a decade of artistic research focused on the invisible mechanisms of global control. Born in Wawa, Canada, and raised across the SWANA region, China, and North America, Moniz is currently based between New York and Cairo - contexts that deeply inform his nomadic and politically engaged practice. His work investigates the structural violence embedded in contemporary logistical and production systems, questioning how the same infrastructures used for surveillance and discipline can be reclaimed as tools of rupture and resistance. The exhibition thus marks not only a geographical debut, but also a moment of synthesis in a complex, layered inquiry into absence, disruption, and the possibilities of global solidarity.

Viola Canova - © 2025 ARTE.it for Bvlgari Hotel Shanghai