Exhibition: Infinity

The Digital Gallery is proud to present Infinity by Si Yi Shen from 4 September to 2 October 2023.

Infinity is a digital mural exploring symbolism and landscape as an interrogation of the artist’s diasporic experience and belonging. By juxtaposing Chinese scroll painting composition and the Australian landscape, this work creates intimate spaces that provoke an emotional response from the audience.

Infinity experiments with story telling methods describing the community, people and place using non-verbal 🙊, ubiquitous 🤲 and semantic 🌸strategies. Underpinning this is Shen’s technique of remixing, collaging and kitbashing digital material (photographs, videos, archives, colours and emoji) into syntax.

This process has sent the artist deep-diving into experimentation with ‘digital memorabilia’  (the myriads of fragments forming the reminiscence of a place, event or communication, documented via electronic means). Such fragments include images, videos, memes, gifs, emojis, audio and 3D scans.  Digital memorabilia takes the narrator's role in Infinity, weaving stories of experience from both the artist and that of others.

Si Yi Shen is an emerging artist working across digital collage and 2D animation, projections, installations and emerging technologies, including augmented reality (AR). Their current art practice explores personal and collective interaction and communication in the digital age. Recent projects include EDGE: Sydenham 2044 x Auspicious Beasts (2023), Migrating West - Open Cut Commissions Broken Hill Gallery (2023), Thrive - The Digital Gallery (2022), Sending You Love - Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, City of Liverpool (2021), Living - Storybox Darling Harbour / Parramatta, ESEM Projects (2021). She was a recent finalist of the Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize (2023) and a participating lab artist at Platform Art (2023).