Brine Lake (A New Body) by Shen Xin is a MUST exhibition to visit at the Walker Art Center

I've seen a ton of shit at the Walker Art Center. I mean, weird shit, folks. "Muchas weas" in colloquial Chilean dialect. Cause we are lucky to have such a marvelous place in Minneapolis, which is free on Thursdays (who would have said that such a communist idea as free entertainment would be financed by a big corporation like Target. I'm losing the point, folks). Shen Xin's last work gets the crown of the weirdest "weas" in the city, and I think that's beautiful. You will freak out too, I think that is the point. You will not only watch art, but you will also live a full 5 1/2 sensorial happening or something. Uff dah. Hold my cup. 

Brine Lake (A New Body) is a proposal of mixed audiovisual means in a dark room. Five screens surround the viewer alternating images of two women (workers in a factory located in Asia), speaking weird shit in Japanese, Korean, and Russian. The whole stagging is crafted to make you feel disoriented, alienated. The five screens alternate projecting a non-linear narrative with subtitles, while the sound in foreign language jumps from one side to the other. Being yourself in the middle of the screens, you are forced to change back and forth. Left to right and left again. 

Do you remember the sensation of watching the TV show Lost during the first seasons? A legit scene would be having John Locke, one of the main characters, entering the bunker and finding Shen Xin's work at the Walker Art Center. I mean, it's really unsound. I have seen this thing twice and have never been able to stay more than 15 minutes because it freaks the shit out of me, folks. I wonder if I should do a challenge of how long can you stay watching the thing, but I'll fear for your mental health afterward if you stay longer than half an hour. This is a good weed, trust me as your personal entertainment dealer. The dialogues of Shen Xin's proposal are also very well crafted instead of being a collection of lazy written work because you can actually follow those conversations, which are quite interesting as they refer to matters such as statelessness, migration, globalization, and environmentalism.  

"Why would I show up to that hogwash crap?" you may ask. Cause it is a one-of-a-kind experience! A peerless, unprecedented experience. 

Attending a piece of art is about the experience of it. To expect to always leave some stagging with a sensation of beauty is bold. Shot me down, right in my head before that! Brine Lake is unique and possibly one of the best ever made shows staged at the Walker Art Center. It will leave an impression on you, far out. That's all that it is about, that's all that it counts. To watch something that transcends what is natural, overcoming any expectation. Halleluyah, singing hallelujah, folks.