Installation/architecture that surrounds the museum. Pine, MDF, paint, sound unit, seating, lights, brick, 2024, 1100cm*600cm*500cm
‘Moment’
Work by Xinghao Liang & Mengmeng Luo
one of the Rhino sketch for “Moments”
The staircase of the art museum, which connects the exhibition hall on the first floor with the exhibition hall on the second floor, interestingly, stands directly in the center of the museum due to the special cultural background and feng shui customs at the time of the construction of the museum. Like a sculpture, it is the most inconspicuous yet the most eye-catching object.
Reference: ‘The Sensorama Simulator, a machine from 1962 that played a 3D film along with stereo sound, aromas and wind in order to create an immersive sensory environment. It was one of many 3D-related creations that visionary inventor and cinematographer Morton Heilig gave the world.’
-From Jon Turi’s writing ‘The sights and scents of the Sensorama Simulator’
Part of architectural drawings, thanks and credit to ©MY-X Studio
About
Moment, a large-scale installation by Luo Mengmeng and Liang Xinghao, subverts conventional logics of museum space. The work presents familiar architectural, cinematic, and display elements in reverse: visitors are drawn toward the space, yet remain aware that they are not seated in a traditional cinema audience but standing before the screen, becoming both observer and observed.
Through constraining spatial arrangements, sound, and lighting, the installation simultaneously attracts and repels, making visitors acutely aware of their movement, position, and perception. The piece prioritizes conceptual experience: the viewer’s cognition, presence, and perceptual awareness constitute the core of the work, while architecture and installation serve as vehicles for this idea.
Moment interrogates conventional modes of viewing in museums, challenges habitual understandings of space, media, and subjectivity, and functions as a “passage” guiding visitors through a continuous transformation of awareness and perception.
About
“Moment”是罗萌萌与梁星昊以合作身份共同创作的大型装置作品，艺术家组合在美术馆中制造了一个长达十米，宽六米，高五米的室内建筑内胆，旨在颠覆美术馆空间中的既有逻辑。作品将建筑、影院与展示元素以相反方式呈现：观者被引向空间，但意识到自己并非置身于传统观影体验中的座位，而是站在荧幕前，成为观察与被观察关系的主体。
通过压迫性的空间布置、声音与光线的调控，作品同时吸引与排斥观众，使他们在接近与退离之间感知自身的行动与意识。它强调观念体验本身：观众的认知、位置与感知成为作品核心，而物理空间、建筑与装置只是实现这一观念的载体。
作品反思美术馆中的观看机制，挑战观众对空间、媒体和自身主体性的习惯认知，同时以“通道”的形式引导他们进入意识与感知的转换过程。
Rhino sketchs for “Moments”
Installing in process
Title
Moment
Year
2024
Materials
Installation/architecture that surrounds the museum. Pine, MDF, paint, sound unit, seating, lights, brick
Dimensions
1100cm*600cm*500cm
Exhibitions
Southern Monsoon, XLY MoMA, Chengdu, China, 2024