CÉLINE SHEN

Céline Shen questions the permeability between the arts in her conception of creation, she develops an “imaginal” vision that aspires to a synesthetic trajectory toward total art, aiming to construct a perpetually evolving body of work. Born in 1988 in France, Céline Shen, also known as the acronym C.S for her digital works, studied philosophy at Sorbonne University, dance at the Institut Supérieur des Arts et des Chorégraphies, and fashion design at the École des Arts Décoratif, her work exists in the intersections of the digital, new technologies, writing, dance, performance and clothing design practices presenting a coherent and aesthetically accomplished body of work. Her creations are connected to societal and artistic questions, addressing issues such as authentication, copying, aura and reproduction, domestic spaces, and the potential of design. 

 

Her work aligns with the "design for disassembly" movement of the 1990s and explores human-machine interfaces in the era of digital ubiquity and decentralization. The artist’s approach takes the form of a true "phygital" ecosystem, where she develops research projects involving immersive technologies and artificial intelligence machines in the fields of design, choreography, fashion, and art. These projects are developed in close collaboration with Paris-based scientific laboratories. This ecosystem-artist approach, firmly anchored in contemporary realities, reflects the emergence of new paradigms where the tangible and the virtual, art and science, cross-pollinate to create new territories, leading to transformative and aesthetic experiences.