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Royal Screw
\n<\/strong>Solo Exhibition at CAM Museum, Naples
\n<\/em>17 <\/strong>\u2013 24 October 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

The CAM_Casoria Contemporary Art Museum is proud to present Royal Screw<\/em>, artist Chai Han\u2019s first Italian solo exhibition. In this deeply personal body of work, Chai turns forgotten histories into fragile monuments. Through sculpture, installation and film, she revisits the world of the Shamate <\/em>(originally from English world \u2018smart\u2019), a youth subculture born in China\u2019s rural areas or factory towns, where young migrant workers once used wild hairstyles, digital avatars and emojis, the visual language of an online generation, to carve out visibility within an invisible world.<\/p>\n

The exhibition brings together Chai\u2019s works of 2025, including 0.88 Yuan<\/em>, Jade ID I\u2013IV<\/em>, The Cheap Thing I & II<\/em>, Phone Grave<\/em> and <\/em>Phone Monument<\/em>, alongside the documentary film Sha Ma Te, Wo Ai Ni<\/em> (2019) directed by Yifan Li. Clay cigarettes boxes, fractured jades and engraved relics turn ordinary materials into vessels of memory. Each piece speaks quietly of dignity, loss and the stubborn creativity that survives within systems built to erase.<\/p>\n

Chai was born in Jixi, on China\u2019s northern border, and once belonged to the Shamate<\/em> community herself. Her practice transforms that experience into a form of remembrance, an act of care for those who made themselves visible in a world that refused to look. \u201cThis exhibition isn\u2019t about nostalgia,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s an excavation. A monument to a civilisation that was never allowed to exist.\u201d
\nReflecting on the dialogue between China and Italy, Chai writes:
\n\u201cIf we look further back in time, both Italy and China were once known as nations of craftsmanship, where art and labour were inseparable. But globalisation split our paths. Italy remained celebrated for its refined handcrafts, while China became the world\u2019s factory. In my work, I use ancient materials like jade, bone and bamboo to carve life back into what machines have consumed. It\u2019s a kind of reversed craftsmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Chai, Naples is more than a host city; it is a mirror. She describes it as a place of \u201cvitality and dignity,\u201d where creation persists through change. Royal Screw<\/em> finds its home here, among the living layers of a city that understands how beauty can rise from what endures.
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