Céline Shen NI 17

Celestial garments, Extraterrestrial glow, Paris, 2023

3D gaming components include enlightening garments, spaceships, a preliminary foundation, birds, and collectible arts, C.S

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This art piece encompasses a symphony of 3D gaming components, featuring enlighten garments blowing into interstellar spacecraft, a foundational backdrop, ethereal avian beings, and a treasure trove of collectible artworks of the artist Céline Shen.

Her inspiration is drawn from the world of video games and intricate puzzles. Like an architect of ever-evolving landscapes, she assembles a captivating landscape of elements. As you delve into this video, you embark on a voyage through an ever-shifting visual tableau, guided through spiraling portals that lead to new realms with each turn.

This video serves as an entrancing introduction to the foundation of the Céline Shen ecosystem, an ever-evolving fusion of art, fashion, and cutting-edge technology.

The celestial garments, suspended in the heavens, pay homage to a Platonician tradition that asserts the celestial origin of all clothing, with the first garment representing the very breath of the soul. It symbolizes the profound connection between the earthly and the spiritual, bridged by virtual liaisons and interconnected spheres that lead to extraterrestrial worlds.

Inspired by this conception of clothing, she finds resonance with the philosophical insights of Emanuele Coccia as presented in his book "La Vie Sensible." Coccia's profound exploration of the sensory and emotional dimensions of life deeply informs Céline Shen's artistic vision. Just as the philosopher Emanuele Coccia delves into the intricacies of sensory perception and the intimate connection between life and the world, she recognizes the profound link between garments, the breath of the soul, and their celestial origins.

It is in this philosophical foundation that she discovers the notion that clothing represents more than mere material; it embodies the very essence of existence, mirroring the symbiotic relationship between humanity and the cosmos, a concept that she masterfully weaves into a manifesto she wrote entitled ‘The aura of the Garment »

In the distance, you'll witness the emergence of a foundation—the inaugural phygital art gallery, conceived by the artist herself. This gallery stands as a testament to her vision, dedicated to showcasing collaborative artists' work and her own creations.

The culmination of this work is the unveiling of Céline Shen's inaugural collection, featuring nine limited edition phygital garments.

The art piece represents the culmination of her residency, signifying a deeper comprehension of blockchain, crypto, metaverse and the uncharted territories that lay the foundation for the limitless horizons that underpin the establishment of the Céline Shen trailblazing ecosystem.

This video serves as an invitation to explore the ever-expanding horizons and dreams that the Céline Shen ecosystem embodies—an interconnected cosmos where beings, virtual and real, weave a dynamic stellar tapestry, ever-transforming with each journey into new realms and perspectives.

Céline Shen is a multidisciplinary artist born in France in 1988, also known as the acronym C.S for her digital works.

Graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, she followed a double degree training program at the Institut Supérieur des Arts et des Chorégraphies (ISAC) in Brussels.

Her works stem between digital, new technologies, writing, dance, performance and clothing design practices. In 2018, her creative process acquired a choreographic dimension taking into consideration Nature, Femininity and extra-terrestrial territories.

Her digital works tangle a perspective where the machine connecting virtual “net-worlds”, enhance invisible dimensions, auras through video, animation, performance, audiovisual, VR, AR, AI uses of machines displaying a reconstituted cosmology crossing interstellar fictions. She encompasses « Imaginal » vision to develop an artwork constantly in progress.

Winner of the ADAGP "Revelation Design" prize in 2019, a portrait on the ARTE channel was devoted to her artistic work. Winner of the Zeugma Innovation Prize in 2021, she joined the Station F incubator the following year.

In 2022 she was invited to the (R)EVOLUTION NFT conference at the Institut de France organized by the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Conseil des Ventes when her first digital art collections in NFT were launched.

This fall, in partnership with United Robotics Group and the laboratory Lutin Userlab at the Cité des Sciences in Paris, she showcased a choreographic performance and created ten unique garments worn by five Pepper robots, accompanied by dancers. This performance embodies a vision of a harmonious world where humans and non-humans coexist.