b.Florence, Italy
Lives and works between London and Florence
SOLO EXHIBITION
2022 Aground, 4cose, London, UK
2021 Becoming a Crane, Daisy’s Room Gallery, London, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Fertile Soil, V.O. Curations Project Space, London, UK
2022 you can’t discourse without disco, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
2021 de nos jours, Osnova Gallery Off-site, London, UK
2021 Three Degrees of Seperation, Changing Room Gallery, London, UK
2021 Might Arrive, Safehouse 1,London, UK
2021 Walls All Around, Fusion Design Centre, Nottinghan, UK
2020
Unearthed, Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Cyprus
2019 Twenty-Five Ponds, Off-site Group Show at Hampstead Heath, London, UK
2019 Get To Know You Better, The Cock Tavern, London, UK
2018 Young Modulus NW1, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2018 Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London, UK
PERFORMANCES
2019 Next Choreography Festival, Siobhan Davies Dance, London, UK
2019 Commixture: Performance Night, The Koppel Project Central, London, UK
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2022 WHW Akademija, Zagreb, Croatia
2021 Sid Motion Gallery Prize (shortlist), London, UK
2020 Grampus Heritage PEATS Program , Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Cyprus
2019 Silver Arts Award
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
2017-2021 BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins
2018-2019 Next Choreography, Siobhan Davies Dance
2016-2017 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Central Saint Martins
Ruoru Mou’s most recent Iines of enquiry concerns the complexity of labour and trade marked by her own experiences with migration, working through and with the idea of displacement while paying heed to the cultural identities of Chinese diaspora communities in Florence, Italy. Her practice spans sculpture, installation, performance and moving-image. Advocating for different modes of play, the act of making becomes a process of recollection that maps the transnational movement of both people and objects.
Her works often slip between sculpture, craft and childhood games such as origami and modelling flying mechanisms. Narratives are constructed in the emulation of specific gestural language — calligraphic practice, paper folding, or the motion of flight. Often times the objects undergo a constant state of ‘shape-shifting’, which overtime creates a causal history of material and labour, and are caught in their process of ‘becoming’.