Hsien Hsien Chu — Art Capital 2026 — Grand Palais – La nef — Exhibition — Slash Paris

In 3 days: February 13 → 15, 2026

The artwork Silent Crash (2024), presented by Hsien Hsien Chu during the parisian Art Capital fair looks like a blast whose sound has been cut off: the impact has already occurred, but the noise remains trapped within the canvas. What lingers is a vibration, perceptible in the strata of paint and the nervousness of the gesture.

Through a resolutely abstract language, the work addresses the instant of a “shock” without pointing to any specific event. Pencil marks, fingerprints, the density and slippage of layers construct an almost physical sensation, allowing the viewer, through sustained contemplation, to experience the accumulation and then the release of inner pressure.

The composition is organized as a field of forces, like a constellation. The eye is alternately drawn in, repelled, then pulled back from one island to another, as if the shockwave were propagating in multiple directions.

Through the superimposition of acrylic and material, Chu Hsien-Hsien makes time itself legible: each layer contains a pause, a turning inward, followed by a renewed impulse. From this stratification emerges a “mute crash” — an inner rumble whose echo can be sensed, without ever tipping into narrative.