Damien Shen
Playing Cards, 2025
Professional poker cards
52 Playing cards, 2.5 x 3.5 inches
Edition of 1000
Artist Statement - Damien Shen Shen has designed a custom set of playing cards, released as a limited, collector’s edition. Each card carries the artist’s distinctive patterning and motifs,...
Artist Statement - Damien Shen
Shen has designed a custom set of playing cards, released as a limited, collector’s edition. Each card carries the artist’s distinctive patterning and motifs, extending the imagery of the tintype series into an object of play, exchange, and collection.
Professionally printed to the highest standard, the deck functions both as an artwork in its own right and as a tactile companion to the exhibition. Like the engraved plates, the cards embody Shen’s fusion of meticulous craft and cultural reference, transforming an everyday object into a vessel of memory, symbolism, and storytelling.
Shen has designed a custom set of playing cards, released as a limited, collector’s edition. Each card carries the artist’s distinctive patterning and motifs, extending the imagery of the tintype series into an object of play, exchange, and collection.
Professionally printed to the highest standard, the deck functions both as an artwork in its own right and as a tactile companion to the exhibition. Like the engraved plates, the cards embody Shen’s fusion of meticulous craft and cultural reference, transforming an everyday object into a vessel of memory, symbolism, and storytelling.