Wanyu Ren - Absent Gallery

Wanyu Ren 任琬玉
This work is based on a 1-minute video of the flowing river to create an attempt to contemplate the essence of natural change. For Ren, the entire creative process is a meditation and a re-description of the river's ephemeral and ever-changing mobility. This one minute is extended infinitely, magnified, she repeatedly put myself in the change and record my feeling. Gradually, she cease to ponder the reasons behind each change, shifting her focus to the change itself.

Ren divided the original video into 60 frames, each of which represented a musical bar on the sheet. She intuitively play the piano keys to mark the corresponding notes on each image. Subsequently, she looped the video sound from that particular frame, drawing on the images to capture the psychological and auditory impressions by referencing the symbols in the musical score. Through this process, Ren created a visualized sheet. After, she collaborated with a musician who took the visualized score she provided and expertly transcribed it into a tangible musical score. It was unexpected to see how closely the generated melody matched the rhythm of the ambient music in the original footage.

该作品以一段1分钟的流动河流的视频为基础进行创作，描绘艺术家对自然变化的本质的思考以及我在变化中的感受。整个创作过程对她来说是对河流短暂且不断变化的流动性的冥想和重新描述。这一分钟被无限延长、放大，琬玉反复将自己置于变化之中，记录自己的感受。渐渐地，她不再思考每个变化背后的原因，而是将注意力转移到变化本身。
艺术家将拍摄到的原始视频分成60帧，每一帧代表乐谱片材上的一个小节。她凭直觉弹奏钢琴键，在每个图像上标记相应的音符。随后，她循环播放该特定帧中的视频声音，通过参考乐谱中的符号，利用图像来捕捉心理和听觉印象。通过这个过程，她创建了一个可视化乐谱。之后，艺术家与一位音乐家合作，他将琬玉提供的乐谱转录成有形的乐谱。当艺术家看着生成的旋律与原始镜头中环境音乐的节奏如此紧密地匹配的那一刻，她似乎变成了河流的一部分。
River's Song
Digital print, Drawing, Artist Book, Video 数码印刷、绘画、手工书、影像
2023
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Wanyu Ren 任琬玉 (b.2000)
Wanyu Ren (b.2000) is an multidisciplinary artist graduated from printmaking at the Royal College of Art. She was awarded the 2021Hiiiillustration Merit Award and the 2020iJungle illustration Merit award in the book category, and won the Outstanding Graduate Design Award in 2022.

As an multidisciplinary artist with a background in environmental design, influenced by Zen philosophy and the study of spatial narrative, her creative work revolves around observing the changes in nature and the neglected traces in life. And through printmaking, painting and photography, she records her meditative experience from these visual events as a process of recognising the inner nature of natural changes and reconnecting with her inner self.

She specialises in depicting changes in nature as a metaphor for the imperceptible, peaceful and comfortable relationship between people and things. This relationship symbolises a harmonious, natural flow of beautiful opportunities into life. Using paintings or conceptual installations as a vehicle, she uses serenity and subtlety to evoke an awareness of the present moment, allowing the viewer to briefly take a break from busyness and flow with the changes in nature.

任琬玉 (b.2000) 是一位跨学科艺术家，毕业于英国皇家艺术学院版画专业。她曾获得2021Hiiiillustration优秀奖和2020iJungle illustration书籍类Merit award，并在2022年荣获优秀毕业生设计奖。

作为一名具有环境设计背景的跨学科艺术家，受到禅宗哲学和空间叙事研究的影响，她的创作围绕着观察自然中的变化和生活中被忽视的痕迹展开。并通过版画、绘画和摄影的方式，记录自己从这些视觉事件中获得的冥想体验，将其视为认识自然变化内在本质和重新连接内在自我的过程。

她擅长通过描绘自然中的变化来隐喻人与事物之间那层不易觉察的、平和的舒适关系。这种关系象征着一种和谐的、自然流入生活中的美好机遇，以绘画或观念性装置为载体，用宁静和微妙的手法唤起人们对当下的意识，让观众短暂的从忙碌中抽离出来，随着自然的变化流动。

Exhibition (selected)

2023
Camping, Birla Millenium gallery, London, UK, 2023RCA Exhibtion2023, Battersea & Kensington, London, UK, 2023Two Fold, Southwark Park Galleries-Dilston gallery, London,UK, 2023The Fading Spaciousness, Bargehouse gallery, London, UK, 2023

Wanyu Ren 任琬玉