"What makes this work so compelling is how it plays with reflection and perception. The polished aluminum surface doesn't just sit there looking pretty. It actively engages with its surroundings, capturing the shifting desert light, the blue Egyptian sky, and the ancient stones in a constantly changing display. Depending on where you stand and what time of day you visit, you're basically looking at a different artwork. It's responsive design taken to a literal, sculptural extreme."
""The Shen" is currently on display as part of Art D'Égypte's "Forever Is Now" exhibition, now in its fifth edition, and it's doing something really special with how we think about contemporary art in historical spaces. The sculpture isn't trying to compete with the pyramids or overshadow them. Instead, it creates this incredible dialogue between ancient Egyptian symbolism and modern design sensibility."
"The name itself is a clue to what Köse is up to. In ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, the Shen symbol represented eternity and protection, depicted as a circle of rope with no beginning or end. It's basically the OG infinity symbol, showing up in royal cartouches and religious texts throughout pharaonic history. Köse took that concept and supersized it into a monumental aluminum structure that frames the pyramids like the world's most epic viewfinder."
A monumental polished-aluminum ring titled The Shen stands on the Giza Plateau, framing the Great Pyramids and engaging with their presence. The work references the Shen hieroglyph, a rope circle symbolizing eternity and protection, and enlarges that motif into a contemporary viewfinder. The sculpture's reflective surface captures shifting desert light, the blue sky, and ancient stone to produce changing visual experiences depending on vantage point and time of day. The piece appears in Art D'Égypte's Forever Is Now exhibition (fifth edition) and intentionally creates dialogue between ancient Egyptian symbolism and modern design without competing with the monuments.
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