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SHEN XIN 沈莘

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  • ས་གཞི་སྔོན་པོ་འགྱུར། (the earth turned green)
  • brine lake (a new body)
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  • warm spell
  • provocation of the nightingale
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  • the gay critic
  • counting blessings
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  • synthetic types
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  • paintings
  • 2025
  • 2022-2024
  • a severe scratch mark overlays black and white image of plants growing in burn filled with water
  • slanted mountain tops covered in snow spots against blue sky
  • a tree trunk partially lit
  • a screen at the end of a dark space with text on the floor
  • an asian woman holding a small round mirror showing partly her face against a dark back ground
  • installation view of four screen leaning on each other showing chairs with animation on top in a space
  • a light bulb that is on tied to a tree branch
  • two asian women looking at how their hands are entangled
  • two women fighting in a hilly landscape
  • a hand pulling the arm dressed in a jacket with stripes
  • a photo album opened with portraits of people
  • a pair of hands holding a steamy plate over a dinner table
  • a tree branch standing in snowy landscape
  • a projection showing a woman looking at the camera accompanied by projection of text, an audience sits before it
  • a distance view of two people sitting within an architectural structure
  • an asian woman holding a script facing a laptop connected to a tv screen showing an animation
  • a four ear monkey overlapped with its own projection
  • a group of people with their eyes closed sitting in a space
  • an oil painting of three hens showing themselves via the opening of a coop's door
  • an oil painting of a bonsai tree

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