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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. 

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Degree Details

School of Communication

Illustration

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.

The Sound of Memory (Trailer) — Directed and Animated by Ruo Hsin Wu Sound by Ruo Hsin Wu Music by Chad Crouch
Chapter1 - You can't see them, but they are still there (01)

Chapter1 - You can't see them, but they are still there (01)

Chapter1 - You can't see them, but they are still there (02)

Chapter1 - You can't see them, but they are still there (02)

Chapter1 - You can't see them, but they are still there (03)

Chapter1 - You can't see them, but they are still there (03)

Chapter2 - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 ... all the buttons are here (01)

Chapter2 - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 ... all the buttons are here (01)

Chapter2 - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 ... all the buttons are here  (02)

Chapter2 - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 ... all the buttons are here (02)

Chapter2 - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 ... all the buttons are here  (03)

Chapter2 - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 ... all the buttons are here (03)

Chapter3 - I had heard the sound before (01)

Chapter3 - I had heard the sound before (01)

Chapter3 - I had heard the sound before (02)

Chapter3 - I had heard the sound before (02)

Chapter3 - I had heard the sound before (03)

Chapter3 - I had heard the sound before (03)

Chapter3 - I had heard the sound before (04)

Chapter3 - I had heard the sound before (04)

The Sound of Memory is an animation that explores issues around dementia based on my own childhood memories. It aims to re-examine meanings of time, perception, and relationships with physical surroundings for those who suffer with dementia.

Medium:

2D animation

Size:

0:49 mins (Trailer) / HD / 2020

In Collaboration with:

2D animationAnimationdementiadocumentarydrawingillustrationMemoryMental Healthmental illnessMoving imageNarrativePoetry
The Sound of Memory (full film)
*If you like to access the full film, feel free to DM me (ruowu916@gmail.com).

Directed and Animated by Ruo Hsin Wu
Sound by Ruo Hsin Wu
Music, Additional Sound, Sound Mix by Ansso An

Medium:

2D Animation

Size:

5:13 mins (full film) / HD / 2020

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