SHEN YUAN ::::

Shen Yuan’s work has always been intimately related to her life experience as an immigrant from China who settled in Europe. The experience of “exile” has been actively turned into an energetic source of imagination and creativity. Revealing fantastic and emotional images of displacement, her work has focused on the issues of survival for “aliens” in foreign lands and the transcendence of such harsh experiences through material and psychological metamorphosis.

Articulating her position as an immigrant woman and mother, Shen Yuan also promotes a kind of “femalized” understanding and approach to reality, from everyday life to geopolitics. This intense negotiation between different cultures and between diverse individual experiences makes her work highly dynamic, performative, without missing any seductiveness and intimacy.

Trampolin is a result of Shen Yuan’s visits to the many Chinatowns around the world during her travels. The cotton blankets are made of patchwork in traditional Chinese formats of Chinatowns in major European cities. She encourages children to participate and jump on the trampolines.