Art Never
Stands Still
Paper‑Couture Performance · Art Basel HK ’25
/Art  Never  Stands  Still/ is a booth with no booth.
We walked into Art Basel wearing paper gowns: Nikita Shchukin covered them in unconscious abstraction and gold mosaic, while YANNI LÜN painted her cartoon beings and the Aurava script. Paper rustles, masks gleam—art walks on its own feet.
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Artists
The artists first converged during a residency
in Thailand, where a shared worldview—and
a mutual faith in art’s unorthodox potential—ignited their collaboration.
  • Nikita Shchukin
    I describe my practice as a field of experiment — a terrain where I observe how form and line resonate with society at large and with each individual viewer.
    I work with two primal elements: shape (in the language of bas‑relief) and stain‑line (in drawing).

    Shape
    At the moment this takes the guise of a street bas‑relief of the Olympic Bear: a Soviet icon undergoing rebranding through the lens of street art, writing a fresh “=” between past and present.

    Stain / Line
    I draw intuitively, without sketches, guided only by the rudiments of composition — angle, the dialogue of black and white, proportion. From this I spin an endless abstract pattern that “means nothing” and therefore bears a zero root of translation: within any context the motif mimics its surroundings, while in a vacuum the mind reads it as the handmade trace of a civilisation that never existed.
  • Yanni Lün
    I stage a training ground for perception, where the image recasts reality as a game of possibility.

    Line, colour, figure—scalpels that sever the automatic bond between object and meaning—leave only contingency and play.

    Reality is never bestowed; it is rebuilt each instant by our own fears and expectations. A body with two eyes cannot claim a whole.

    I turn that very limitation into a playground. Play is courage, not naïveté. Absurd characters, unruly lines and over‑bright hues become instruments of release.
    Here gravity dissolves into lightness; the mask discloses, not hides. Child‑logic rules: fear no game, for all is transient.
Backstage
The performance was conceived and crafted across two geographies — Thailand and Hong Kong.
Photo by Jacob
Photo by Leio
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Photo by Marion
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Photo by Shifaaz
Photo by Mike
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Photo by Sven
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