Coinciding with Shen Xin’s exhibition Highland Embassy, Collective are excited to be collaborating with An Deò, an initiative based in Northern Isle of Skye that brings moving images to communities through screenings and gatherings. Founded by Shen Xin and connected through an ecosystem of creatives and collaborators, An Deò aims to align the creative efforts in living and making.
The An Deò screening at Collective presents a programme of short films exploring forms of embodied knowledge through stories that invite awareness in both the urgent and transcendent qualities of time.
Shen Xin is an artist and filmmaker from Chengdu, China, who lives and works in the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Their practice encompasses moving image, installation, performance, sound, and text to explore socio-political and ecological narratives of belonging and migration. Creating environments for immersive storytelling, Shen Xin challenges dominant narratives to propose alternative modes of understanding that are rooted in relation, place, and political agency
Screening order:
Scent Line of a Moving Mountain Eiko Soga, 17:59, 2025,
Saffron, Thomson and Craighead, 10:36, 2018
Deviant, Emily Beaney, 14:12, 2021
But this is the language we met in, Grounds of Coherence #1, Shen Xin, 12:16, 2023
Aerial, Margaret Tait, 4:00, 1974