FENG SHENG-SHINs Swarm Exhibition "Inhabiting the Body"

Feng Sheng-Shin

Feb 15 - Mar 2, 2025

Sheng-Shin creates works centered on the theme of her inner landscapes, producing pieces across a wide range of media and forms, including textile design, illustration, drawing, and crafts. Influenced by animism since childhood, she believes that everything, from animals and nature to objects and the internal organs of the body, contains its own animus (spirit). She expresses the states and dynamics of these entities.

Her exploration of inner landscapes began after she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. The immune system attacks the body’s tissues and organs, imbuing each one with its own unique consciousness. Her early work, “Can You See My Pain Now?”, captures the bodily changes caused by the disease and the emotional shifts that accompany it, through illustrations and text. “Body Representation” delves deeper into the inner landscape, depicting it through abstract patterns on transparent silk fabric. These overlapping elements create multi-layered meanings and evoke a sense of change with every shift.

In this exhibition, she presents works that further expand the concept of inner landscapes. “I Want to Sleep in a Comfortable Place—Went to Kyoto” is a playful pencil drawing that captures the relationship between the body’s journey, architecture, and landscape, discovered during a visit to Kyoto. “The Inhabitants of the Body" uses the form of papier-mâché, a traditional folk craft, to represent the smallest unit of the self. Recently, in her search for her place, experimental performances, akin to digging, have revealed various forms of the self.

Through various approaches, Feng explores the self beyond flat paintings, venturing into soft textiles, three-dimensional spaces, and improvisational actions. In doing so, she depicts fluid and mutable body landscapes while guiding the viewer into the mysterious yet intimate inner life of existence. Please join this journey of self-exploration. Perhaps, among “us,” you may also find “yourself.”

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