Lina Shirin Shen est l’alias de Céline Shen.
Lina Shirin Shen est l’une des entités sensibles de l’écosystème créatif de Céline Shen. Plus qu’un alias, elle constitue une entité autonome, née d’un besoin d’exploration intérieure et de mise en résonance poétique des formes. En miroir de solis aurae, dont elle prolonge et réfléchit l’énergie, Lina Shirin Shen (LS') incarne une essence lunaire : un territoire de transformation, de cycles et de perceptions mouvantes.
Son univers se déploie à travers une pluralité de médiums : création plastique, chorégraphie, texte, image, vidéo, photographie, performance, sculptures et arts numériques, qu’elle articule dans une recherche où le corps, le geste et la matière deviennent langages. Chaque œuvre agit comme un fragment de constellation, révélant des états sensibles, des récits intimes et des tensions entre présence physique et projection imaginaire.
Pensée comme un satellite gravitationnel, Lina Shirin Shen (LS') occupe une position d’axe : elle relie les dimensions cosmiques du système à une expérience ancrée dans le corps et le vécu terrestre. Ses créations interrogent les notions de transformation, de résonance et d’identité fluide, ouvrant des espaces où le poétique devient une forme de connaissance.
À travers Lina Shirin Shen (LS'), Céline Shen développe une écriture artistique incarnée, où les disciplines se contaminent et se répondent, donnant naissance à des œuvres et dispositifs performatives et visuelles qui explorent les seuils entre visible et invisible, intime et collectif, réel et imaginal.
A quiet gesture shaped in clay. From an earthy, organic base emerges a slender botanical line, reaching gently into space. The piece holds a moment of stillness, where balance, fragility, and breath converge. Rooted yet free, this ceramic sculpture invites slow looking, contemplation, and a soft connection to the rhythms of nature.
Cosmologies II
On Harmonies, Galactic Movement and Stellar Variations
Territory IV -Aura of the garment
Tune into Nature
Paris, France
2023
With the dancer Sophie Blet
Film Maker : Estielle Rylle
Landscape photography
Black‑and‑white silver gelatin photographs
Brussels, Belgium
2016–2018
This photographic journey began in Japan, following a friend in his fondness for mechanical vintage objects: household appliances, office furniture, photographic equipment. We came across a charming man in a small, secluded shop at the end of its life cycle, as if frozen in time, like the survival of a cherished past. My friend found his happiness there, and this charming Mr. Tekada, almost as happy as him, took pleasure in giving new life to his ‘remnants.’ We were essentially speaking of objects from the 1960s and 1970s, even if what we discovered led us much further back in time. Carried by this shared enthusiasm, we found ourselves enjoying the art of bargaining, something rather uncommon outside the Kansai region, around a camera whose particularity was its vertical viewfinder. In the end, I made the decision: it would be mine.
The relationship to calligraphy struck me instantly “click” through its affinity with the kakemono, unfolding in their full Japanese verticality within interior spaces. This camera, with its worn appearance, became a small companion of escape, accompanying me on my walks ... more tender, more withdrawn from the frenzy of Daido Moriyama’s Tokyo, which I deliberately avoided discovering too hastily. It corresponded to my vision of calligraphy as an intensity of feeling brought into order, disentangled from chaos. The difficulties of focusing, or rather, the rudimentary nature of its settings, allowed instinct to take over. Spontaneity seized me, renewing my approach to image-making, shortening the distance and delay between perception and capture.
