Ruo Hsin Wu

Ruo Hsin Wu is a London-based Taiwanese visual artist who focuses on narrative image-making and experimental animation. She holds a BA in Animation from Taipei National University of the Arts and a MA in Visual Communication from Royal College of Art. Her work is primarily drawing-based, using both traditional and digital mediums. In her practice, she explores the power of metaphor and imagination. She has developed an obscure and poetic world of her own with non-linear narrative forms. Her drawings have been shortlisted for V&A Illustration Award 2020 and exhibited in galleries and international art fairs. Her films have also been screened at film festivals around the world. 

I am a visual artist who primarily works with illustration and animation. My work usually deals with time, memory, and space, exploring the junction between individual and collective memory. I am interested in using storytelling to create empathetic communication, transforming a personal or social issue into intimate experiences for viewers. I would like to communicate the complicated feelings and emotions that are difficult to describe in words. I am especially fascinated with ambiguous narratives and how the meaning of a work can develop within the viewer in a state of perpetual growth and extension.

In my recent animation The Sound of Memory, I weave fragments of memory and poetic observations of everyday details with research into dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, to explore the effects of ordinary moments within the deterioration of memory.