展览时间：2025年3月9日-2025年3月15日
展览地址：上海市普陀区莫干山路50号4B101室
主办单位：上海 NONE PROJECT
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展览介绍：
上海文庙位于上海市黄浦区文庙路215号，建于1855年。如今，我们所说的文庙不仅指庙宇本身，更涵盖了其周边的街区。这片区域承载了许多上海人的童年回忆，可以说，每一代人都有一段独特的文庙印象和故事。自2022年，文庙开始扩建，其周边街区也在同步整改，将在2026年变成一个以儒家文化为中心的旅游集散地。曾经的文庙停留在记忆深处，成了人们心中回不去的故乡。
“明天” 是一个即将来临的新时代，承载着对弘扬和传承传统文化的期待。展览《在迈向明天之前》则邀请我们暂缓脚步，去回顾那些未被记录，逐渐模糊，并终将遗失在明天的过往。展览作品呈现了多维且碎片化的文庙印象：它既是儒学圣地，也曾是上海市民眼里的游乐场、二次元一条街、和朋友家人共同生活的社区、淘书的集市、祈求学业顺利的庙宇、小吃街、供人休闲游玩的园林、激发家国情怀的讲堂……这些作品展现了文庙在过去170年间功能（以儒学、娱乐和教育为主）的多次转变，以及其周边街区的演变。它们不仅记录了这一历史进程，更深刻揭示了官方定位与市民生活、传统与现代、神圣性与世俗性之间的冲突、交织与共生。
展览引发我们思考：上海文庙如何在作为传统文化象征的同时，成为凝聚了不同群体情感与归属感的精神故乡？作为儒学圣地，它如何在现代化的进程中同多元文化和思潮交汇、碰撞，并不断被重新定义？作为公共空间，它如何在不断地重构中，疏远了曾经的市民群体，并塑造了新的群体记忆？在迈向明天之前，展览邀请我们安放这些失落与怀旧之情，并重新审视记忆、历史、过去、现在与未来之间的关系。
Before Stepping into Tomorrow Shanghai Confucius Temple, located at No. 215 Wenmiao Road, Huangpu District, was built in 1855. Today, when we refer to the Shanghai Confucius Temple, we are not only talking about the temple itself, but also its surrounding neighborhoods. This area carries the childhood memories of many Shanghainese, where each generation has left its unique impressions and stories. Since 2022, the temple has been undergoing expansion while its surrounding neighborhoods are being renovated, scheduled to transform into a Confucian culture-themed tourism hub by 2026. The former Shanghai Confucius Temple now resides deep in collective memory, becoming a hometown that we can never return to.
"Tomorrow" represents an approaching new era that carries expectations for preserving and revitalizing traditional culture. The exhibition “Before Stepping into Tomorrow” invites us to pause and revisit those unrecorded, fading pasts that are destined to be lost in tomorrow's arrival. The exhibition works present multidimensional and fragmented impressions of Shanghai Confucius Temple: it has been both the official narrative's sacred Confucian site and Shanghai citizens' playground, anime merchandise street, residential community with family and friends, secondhand book market, temple for praying for academic success, snack street, leisure garden, and patriotic lecture hall... These pieces reflect the temple's functional evolution--primarily serving Confucianism, entertainment, and education--as well as the transformations of its surrounding neighborhood over the past 170 years. More profoundly, they reveal the conflicts, interweaving and symbiosis within this area between official positioning and civilian life, tradition and modernity, sanctity and mundanity.
The exhibition prompts us to ponder: How has Shanghai Confucius become both a symbol of traditional culture and a spiritual homeland unites diverse groups' emotional connections and sense of belongings? As a Confucian holy site, how does it interact with diverse cultures and ideas in modernization, constantly being redefined through collisions? As a public space, how has its continuous reconstruction distanced former communities while shaping new collective memories? Before stepping into tomorrow, the exhibition invites us to place these feelings of loss and nostalgia, and to re-examine the relationship between memory, history, past, present and future.