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[lang_en]March Featured People: MOJO Wang

Interview &Translation / Zhou Me

1. Welcome to Xindanwei.com, you are the first artist featured in Xindanwei People! Would you mind to introduce yourself a bit?
Thanks for having me here, I am a 23-year-old boy who is based in Shanghai as an illustrator.

2. We heard that your major is not quite related to art, what prompted the idea for your painting/illustrating and what excited you to make you undertake it?
It’s a wierd story. Basicly, my family didn’t like the idea of me dreaming to be an artist or an illustrator, that’s why I was major in engineering industry. At first, everything was just a hobby to help me getting rid of all the works from university. And sometimes I do think about it, why I am doing this and why I am so in loving with it. Maybe when I am painting/illustrating, I feel myself in deed, I feel alive.

3. Would you be willing to share your thoughts on homosexuality and what you try to express with the current exhibition in Xindanwei: Future Lovers?
On homosexuality? I really don’t have a lot of things to say, since I don’t like tagging people – gay not gay, fat or skinny, cute or ungly. I mean…people are people in my mind, no matter where are you coming from in what time and doing what, humans are all the same to me. What I wanna say is there is really no need to say something on homosexuality, it’s just like you are asking an apple what are its thoughts on other apples. I don’t think it would have anything to say.

Future lovers, eh…at first it’s something about that we don’t have gay marriage here right now. So it’s a blessing to those gay couples in the future. I guess some people think I should say that, haha, but it is really not a big part of my original idea. The main thing is that, I wanna to express one kind of feeling about the future from the presents and past, just a saddness and some kind of meaningless disco way to enjoy life. I guess it’s because I am kind of a hedonism with tears, haha, actually a lot of people in the society is a hedonism with tears – we don’t care about the really things but to focus on bull shit, which hurts we back in all kinds of way. Or we were broke that’s why we choose to live in a shitty world instead of changing it. If the whole world is going to the end, why bother to fight for it, just enjoy it, since we are doomed to go th hell.

4. Your third solo illustration exhibition in Xindanwei was very great, what are your future steps?
Try to keep doing what I am doing while I really love it, I guess. I don’t know, life is full of superises, you know? Maybe I will be hit by a car tonight and go hell, who knows? My point is I don’t really thinking about the future right now.

5. What do you read/watch for inspiration?
Raymond Carver is one of my favourite writer, I cannot say that his books inspire me, but it touches me everytime and just change the way I look the world. Recently I am so attracted by Julia Leigh’s “Sleeping Beauty”, what a beautiful movie!

6. Thanks again for providing Xindanwei.com this opportunity to interview you. Any final thoughts for our readers?
Well…not exactly…ha, I guess, have a nice day! Apart from that, you are more than welcome to tell other stories about you/your work. Hope can hear from you soon.

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[lang_cn]人物（二月）：MOJO Wang

采访和翻译／ Zhou Me

1. 欢迎来到xindanwei.com，您是新单位人物采访的第一位艺术家！请先介绍一下您自己。
谢谢新单位。我23岁，住在上海，是以画插画为生的男青年。

2. 听闻您大学的专业和画画风马牛不相干，能说说是什么驱动您投身艺术创作的吗？
呵呵，这可能是一个比较曲折的故事。我从小梦想成为一个插画家和艺术家，但家里一直非常反对。迫于压力我在大学选择了工程学这个专业。刚开始，我仅仅是为了逃避那些恼人的工程学作业，一直以画画来排解。我也认真地考虑过为什么我这么沉醉于画画。可能是因为只有画画的时候，我才能真正的体味自我，感受到生命的活力。

3. 您能谈谈对同性恋的想法吗？您这次在新单位办的插画展Future Lovers是试图表达您的什么想法？
同性恋么？我其实没有什么可说的。我不太爱给人贴标签－同性恋或异性恋，胖子或瘦子，可爱或可憎，这样那样的标签并没有意义。对我来说，无论人们从哪儿来，做什么，大家都是「人」嘛。所以其实同性恋者在我眼里和他人也没什么区别。

关于Future Lovers，恩。。。因为同性恋婚姻在国内还不合法，最初是想祝福同性恋人们的未来。我想有些人觉得这是我的本意，但其实这并不是这些作品最主要的原始想法。很讽刺的是，我其实想表述我们对未来的一种感受，无论是过去还是现在，都是悲伤的，无意义的。我想这是因为我本身是一个「流着泪的乐观主义者」（笑）。

4. 这次您在新单位办的Future Lovers插画展很受欢迎，能说说您以后的打算吗？
我会继续做爱做的事吧－画画（笑）。但你知道，生命里充满了各种可能性，说不定哪天就出个车祸撒手人寰了（笑）。所以，我现在不太会去计划未来，让未来来计划我吧。

5. 那您平时从哪里找灵感呢？
卡佛是我最喜欢的作家之一。不能说我从他的作品中直接得到灵感，但是我能得到某种能量。他作品里那些审视世界的方式我也有共鸣，甚至因此改变。最近茱莉亚·丽的《睡美人》让我十分着迷，非常棒的电影！

6. 再次感谢您给xindanwei.com这个采访您的机会。您还有什么想对读者说的吗？
恩。。。祝大家今天好心情（笑）。此外，通过新人物这样的一个采访单元我也了解了很多有趣的人和他们在做的有趣的事情。希望能越办越好！[/lang_cn]