Ruiya Xu (UK)
RUIYA XU
Designer biography:
Ruiya Xu deals with the sorts of mysteries that would not trouble most minds. Her practice is driven by a thirst for understanding and draws from a broad range of inspirations - time, nihilism, archaeology, post-apocalyptic, both ancient and futuristic. Ruiya Xu explores these ideas in a typically imaginative way. Each of her projects begins with a specific question and unfolds through the lens of existing scientific principles, offering a hypothesis and constructing a fictional "new mythology for our contemporary era" through speculation and imagination. In-depth research commences from this point. She is a material-based artist, and working with various materials is her way of understanding the world. Through research and experimentation, she utilizes a great range of materials to manifest her "contemporary mythologies'' in the physical world. Ruiya's physical practice oscillates between mythology, science fiction, archaeology, and virtual imagination.
Collection concept:
Jewellery - An extinct creature from the same time as the dinosaurs. On display are fossils from archaeological excavations.
RUIYA XU, BRACELET, LIVING JEWELLERY, 2021, RESIN, BRONZE, 6X4cm
RUIYA XU, RING, LIVING JEWELLERY, 2021, RESIN, BRONZE, 6X7cm
RUIYA XU, NECKLACE, LIVING JEWELLERY, 2021, RESIN, BRONZE, PAINT, STRING, 4X30cm
RUIYA XU, JEWELLERY SET, LIVING JEWELLERY, 2021, RESIN, BRONZE, PAINT, STRING