TINA is pleased to present Mink and Berry, a solo exhibition by Shen Xin, featuring a film, three paintings, and a screen-printed text installation. Rooted in the form of a contemporary fable, Mink and Berry simultaneously explores the language and capacity for kinship, and the interdependence between intention and perception, in a shared but fractured world. It unfolds a quiet meditation on the complexities and innate potentials of recognition and belonging.

The exhibition hosts a story of a young mink who, observing the rituals of a human community, attempts to signal its inclusion through symbolic acts. Yet, these gestures are misread. They are met not with understanding but with distance and mistrust, leading to fear, misinterpretation, and violence. As the mink’s efforts to be seen and understood grow more desperate, the community’s response becomes more defensive. A cycle of escalating action ensues, becoming a story at once intimate, mythical, and all too familiar. This narrative, presented as a screen-printed text rendered in ink made from local flora the artist gathered, opens a space for imagining how meaning circulates in uneven terrains. The story, part of a wider children’s publishing initiative with སྲམ་ Dòbhran, offers a fable not only of misunderstanding, but also of the longing to be known and the persistent quest to build meaningful relationships.

The film, bearing fruit of fondness (2025), deepens this enquiry by...