Corner, Chime and Home
May 24 - Jun 28, 2025
SOKA ART.TAIPEI
Born in Taipei in 1993, Wu Ruo-xin's creative media encompass flat art and hand-drawn animation. During her master's studies at the Royal College of Art in the UK, she won and was shortlisted for multiple animation and illustration awards. Her works have been exhibited in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Indonesia, Korea, Singapore, Spain, and other countries.She is skilled at using low-saturation colors and layered brushstrokes to create spaces with subtle light and transparency, resembling memories flowing between emergence and disappearance. This stems from the artist's keen capture of minute moments in daily life—childhood memories in afternoon sunlight, or the wordless understanding formed with others in fleeting moments—all collected deep within her soul and transformed into visual expressions on canvas that are dreamlike yet profound, innocent yet tinged with melancholy. In the exhibition title, "Corners" represents places where emotions can dwell, while "Wind Chimes" are like the sounds of memory, evoking past feelings and times. These images interweave to form the artist's imagination of "Home," becoming clues to the atmosphere and context in this body of work. The girls and animals in her paintings present understanding and companionship beyond language. The artist believes that animals, as part of human life, offer an interesting perspective for understanding the essence of the concept of "Home." When we develop a sense of security and attachment to environments, relationships, or memories, that place becomes "Home" in our hearts. This exhibition invites viewers to experience these precious emotional connections together.
The black background serves as a metaphor for memory, highlighting the quietly existing girl and white rabbit in the painting, adorned with low-saturation light blue, pale yellow, and pure white, creating an atmosphere of tranquility tinged with subtle melancholy. The artist uses delicate brushstrokes layered upon one another to create a unique transparent luminosity for the figures, like fragments that appear when closing one's eyes—sometimes clear, sometimes hazy. The silent intimate emotional exchange between them transcends representational visual expression. While the images may become weathered and blurred with the erosion of time, the warmth of their spiritual dependence on each other will remain firmly remembered, becoming an eternal imprint.
The girl's body merges with the profound universe, with colorful glimmers serving as both her attire and the tiny specks of light visible when looking down upon a city, weaving together a visual narrative that encompasses both the macro and micro. The girl gently cradles the crystal-clear, azure Earth, her gaze revealing a tender contemplation of the world. The small airplane on her back is a metaphor for living in a foreign land. When we face the vast world, that feeling of being small yet intimately connected to it represents the emotional memory of each person seeking their place in the immense universe. Clouds drift with the wind and people wander their separate ways, but we remain connected by the same sky and the same planet, making the world intimate and warm.
“Corner, Chime and Home " exhibition explores the non-physical essence of "home." The artist uses black, green, and white backgrounds as metaphors for memory, creating hazy imagery that emerges when closing one's eyes through low-saturation tones and delicate brushwork. The works capture those ineffable emotional moments that remain forever in one's heart, inviting viewers to quiet corners to listen to memories echoing like wind chimes and rediscover the true "home" within their hearts.