Man Yin Wu (Vicky)
About
Man Yin Wu is an interdisciplinary writer and artist currently based in London and Hong Kong. Expanding beyond scholarly research in anthropology, Man Yin experiments and works with a wide range of materials and media: still images, moving images, archive, text.
Driven by spiritualist practice, Man Yin engages with an alternative, decolonial pedagogy that speaks to her diasporic experience whereby desires and ambivalences are woven together.
Education
2023-24 MA Photography, Royal College of Art
2020-23 BSc Social Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Statement
‘last night she dreamt of a settled world falling into places’ (click to watch moving image)
exists in the bifurcated form of a moving image installation and a 7-minute performance.
What does it mean to be in a perpetual liminal space?
Left with fragmented memories of Hong Kong, a place called home, she begins searching for traces from the past through archives, attempting to repair what has been lost.
If language and culture seems to be inextricably tied, what would happen if she forgot her own tongue? Guided by her psyche, this moving image installation follows her reparative journey, slowly unfolding as the universe collapses into a singular circle.
Drifting between states and dimensions, she may have fallen into the mental universe of the colonised (Ngúgí 1986). Countering traditional structures and ways of knowing, cosmic forms and spiritual practices emerge as potent forces shaping my practice.
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