Siyu Wu

Siyu Wu is a Chinese artist based in London. Her production develops around the term "therapy". Her art is a process of healing and spiritual rebirth conveyed through the themes of memories, landscape and travel.

If you are interested in Siyu’s work, please email all inquiries to siyuw060598@gmail.com

About

Siyu's work incorporates a wide variety of media and materials, such as sound, light, paper and copper, in order to convey a therapeutic power of art as a path of regeneration and healing.

Her immersive light installations refer to landscapes once visited by the artist. Shown in the dark, they create a sensory and meditative atmosphere, further enhanced by sound effects which bring out an element of a religious worship. In this way, Siyu invites the visitor to live a healing experience, to surrender and let go of what cannot be held back in the face of the sublime character of nature. References to sites visited by the artist can also be traced through specific metals in her work, such as the red sandstone of the copper mines in Jordan.

The intrinsic formal properties of colour, light, shape and texture, of the used materials, are also key to Siyu’s work. Triggering reactions in materials through corrosion techniques, dyeing and the exposure to burning incenses contribute to the transformative, healing experience that these works convey. As a result, her body of work can be seen as an exploration of a healing system that draws on all our sensory perceptions, including that of smell.

Biography

Born in Guangzhou in China, Siyu received her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in London and is currently completing an Art Business Masters at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. Her work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions and was recently showcased at her solo show in China. Siyu has also worked for one of the most distinguished design brands in China, Bentu Design Studio, further broadening her artistic outlook and her practice.