
The Last Call
Janurary 25, 2025 - Janurary 31, 2024
13 Grattan St, #402, Brooklyn, NY11206
Artists
Jingyao Huang
Mariana Vidal-Escabi
Tommaso Nicolao
Chloe Scout Nix
Beiyi Wang
Curator
Xiaojing Zhu
In collaboration With
CHINCHINART
“It’s our last call, would you like to add anything?”
This familiar closing remark in a restaurant serves as the starting point for this exhibition.
The phrase carries multiple connotations: the last drink before closing, a decisive moment of action, or an ominous foreshadowing.

From January 25 to January 31, 2025, CHINCHINART is honored to present The Last Call in New York. Drawing inspiration from Édouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, the exhibition reflects the mundane and unordinary intersection, where vibrant realities meet quiet mysteries. Just as Manet’s barmaid gazes out with an enigmatic stillness amidst a bustling scene of leisure, this exhibition seeks to explore the duality of modern life—its fleeting connections, veiled tensions, and moments of introspective pause hidden within vivid exteriors.

Discussions of modernity have unfolded differently across cultures. In East Asia, they are echoed in the New Sensations literature of the 1930s; in New York, they are traced through the Roaring Twenties and the backfires from Wall Street. Today, modernity is found in the neon-lit restaurants and bars of every city block—spaces imbued with the raw, ephemeral emotions of contemporary life: anxieties, obsessions, loneliness, and fleeting encounters. These moments, often transient and disposable, nevertheless persist as cultural footnotes, shaping the fabric of urban.
In this group exhibition, five emerging artists present works across painting, photography, and installation, exploring the mundane yet profound moments of contemporary life, their transformations, and their reconstruction through personal memory. Beyond complex theoretical frameworks and the shadows of historical analysis, the seemingly ordinary defines and reshapes our reality. These moments unfold tensions and hidden narratives beneath the veneer of the everyday—brought to an abrupt close by a server’s farewell, yet always poised for the next opening.

Installation View



