Filmed in several zoos and animal preservation centers in Mni Sota Makoce (Minnesota), New Light is a short study on potentials of looking and being with. Commissioned by Macalline Art Center for the group show The Elephant Escaped, the exhibition delves directly into a world highly mediated by technocratic systems and hopes to construct a materiality of limbo through polyphonic works, thus opening up an inward dialogue of experience. 

作品攝製於明尼蘇達州幾座不同的動物保護區和動物園內，觀看⽅式在
這⾥承載著共存關係。其內容呈現了透過不同語⾔學習數數的過程，在
念誦的同時⽬擊著許多野獸、猛獸、動物、怪物、造物、⼩傢伙、存在
和⽣成。 8mm膠片的影像處於均衡的靜態，接近點彩畫派的繪畫光影。
鏡頭並不對觀眾做任何引導，因⽽保留了將⼀切視為光線以及令影像透
過被看形成“新的光”的可能性。在這段實驗性的時間中，主線是去學習
各種與個體的複數性相關的語⾔，並將珍視的價值注入到個體的關係
中。呼應本次展覽關於對話的形式和意義的探討，兩塊懸掛於展廳的屏
幕被安置於美凱龍藝術中⼼玻璃外牆之間的透明光照環境中，使場域產
⽣迴響。

Shen Xin practices empowering alternative histories, relations, and potentials between individuals and nation-states. Their interests lie in understanding culture on its own terms. Seeing it as an active commitment to the learning, teaching and engaging with relating to places as land, it opens up to inhabiting the multitudes of the selves through the lens of time. Engaged with moving image, video installation, public event and collective process, Shen Xin imagines and creates affirmative spaces of belonging that embrace polyphonic narratives and identities. Their solo presentations include ས་གཞི་སྔོན་པོ་འགྱུར། (The Earth Turned Green) (Swiss Institute, New York, 2022), Brine Lake (A New Body) (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2021), Double Feature (Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2019), Synthetic Types (Stedelijk Museum, 2019), To Satiate (MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2019), Warm Spell (ICA, London, 2018), and half-sung, half-spoken (Serpentine Galleries, London, 2017). Their group exhibitions include Language is a River (MUMA, Melbourne, 2021), Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning (Gwangju Biennale, 2021), Sigg Prize (M+ Museum, Hong Kong, 2019), Afterimage (Lisson Gallery, London, 2019), and Songs for Sabotage (New Museum Triennial, New York, 2018). They received the BALTIC Artists’ Award (2017) and held the Rijksakademie residency in Amsterdam (2018-19). Shen Xin practices on Miní Sóta Makhóčhe, the land of the Dakhóta Oyáte, as well as on Lënapehòkink (New York City), the land of the Lenape peoples.