Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

Ash Moniz (1992, Wawa, Canada) is an artist, activist, and musician whose decade-long research interrogates the violence embedded in supply-chain logistics. Their work examines how representations of lost time shape labor management while simultaneously offering leverage for advancing workers’ struggles. A Crack in the Shape of Light Getting In draws from Moniz’s practice over the past ten years, centering on the overlooked gaps and absences within supply chains – unaccounted labor, logistical inefficiencies, and disruptions – revealing their latent potential.

Moniz explores how voids and silences can generate new forms of value, solidarity, and political imagination. Spanning three floors, the exhibition unfolds through distinct yet interconnected explorations of labor, resistance, and silence. On the fourth floor, Moniz examines loss-prevention strategies in supply chains, revealing how workers’ lost time – reclaimed through organized strikes – becomes a tool for transnational solidarity. The fifth floor hosts an international "conference of the speechless", investigating non-speaking as a mode of resistance, whether through ineffability, enforced silence, or the retraction of speech. On the sixth floor, RAM’s newly established library is transformed into a stage for a performative cartographic installation, mapping alliances between global ports where proximity is determined not by geography, but by solidarity.

Ash Moniz: A Crack in the Shape of Light Getting In is organized by X Zhu-Nowell, Executive Director and Chief Curator, with the support of Karen Wang, Curatorial Assistant and Researcher.