Join our curator, Claire Craig, for a special tour of our exhibition by Shen Xin – Highland Embassy. Claire will share insights into the production of the exhibition and Shen Xin's artistic practice.
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About the exhibition
Highland Embassy brings together three projects by artist and filmmaker Shen Xin which are all rooted in place and use storytelling to explore themes of migration, belonging, indigenous frameworks for languages and communities.
Bearing fruit of fondness (2025), is a film set on the Isle of Skye where Shen Xin lives and uses the leaves of a type of cotoneaster plant, which is an invasive species impacting local habitats, as a device to ground the films narrative and themes.
The second film, Solar Wheels (2024), draws on the Uyghur variation of the Wooden Horse story, using this narrative as a shared place to engage in relationship building with kindred communities.
Completing the exhibition is a new series of paintings used to illustrate a short children's story, The child of the mountain (“རི་ཕྲུག” in Tibetan), written by Shen Xin. The story reflects on the overharvesting of caterpillar fungus in Tibet as a tale of caution and as a contemporary myth.
Highland Embassy is part of We Contain Multitudes – a collaborative project in partnership with Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) and LUX Scotland, funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.