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ArtEvol 2025 / Hiro Shen
Is It Still , 2025 Honey, glass, metal, coconut oil 150 × 350 × 190 cm
Hiro Shen is a multidisciplinary artist based in London. His practice explores perceptual thresholds, slow material transformation and the quiet erosion of structural systems. Through sculpture, moving image, painting and installation, Shen examines how meaning dissolves when materials behave autonomously and processes unfold beyond narrative control. A central concept is the notion of catastrophic shifts on a geological timescale, events that evolve imperceptibly over vast periods before erupting with sudden intensity. Shen’s work cultivates states of ambiguity and reconsiders perceptions of time, offering encounters with experience prior to explanation. By emphasising slowness, resistance and collapse, Shen creates spaces where language falters and attention deepens.
Artwork Introduction
Is It Still draws on the metaphor of geological time to reflect how emotional experiences such as early love, family expectations and social roles become sealed within the self. Like sedimentary layers, these phases accumulate gradually, remaining unprocessed yet ever-present. Each handblown glass vessel contains honey in different states, fluid, crystallised or darkened, mirroring how emotions persist, solidify or change under pressure. By merging bodily structure with slow material transformation, the work invites reflection on how unresolved states are carried forward long after their original form has shifted.
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