Shenlu’s artistic practice centers on textiles, extending into installation, moving image, and sensory interaction to explore the nonlinear relationships between body, emotion, and energy. In a time when tactile experience is increasingly blurred and the visualization of emotion is over-commodified, she transforms seemingly gentle acts of repetition—knitting, weaving, embroidery, and pattern-making—into mechanisms that respond to what she calls a “crisis of perception.”
She articulates a visual language of “ornamental energy shells”: protective yet intimate structures built from sequins, colors, and yarns. These patterned surfaces become sites of emotional projection, reflecting anxiety, memory, and the fragile bond between humans and nature. Through her work, the body is recalled as a sensory interface, while textiles emerge as tactile spiritual devices—tools for reconnection and resonance in an era of sensory decline.
In Shenlu’s practice, softness is not surrender, and ornamentation is never superficial. Fabric becomes a medium for micro but enduring disturbances of perception, nurturing the regeneration of emotional landscapes.