Hongshuang Fu (Georgina)

Using an armillary sphere to understand the movement of celestial bodies is also like using one language to decipher another one

Hongshuang Fu is an interdisciplinary researcher and visual artist based in London and Beijing. She received her BA in Visual Communication from Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2021, where she initiated a study of personal methodology based on visual experiments. Her graduation work ‘Mediator’ was an expedition towards understanding, observing and establishing connections between things. It started with the Babylonian Map of the World and responded with ten stories of stones she collected.

By 2022, she embarked upon a new journey at the Royal College of Art, in which she focused more on learning through making, indulging herself by seeking relations between various disciplines and rendering them by means of graphic design, 3D making and interactive behaviours.

Recognition:

2021 Mediator, Graduate360°, Design360° (Shortlist)

2021 Mediator, Young Blood Award, Lu Junyi Design Live (Shortlist)

An Egyptian hieroglyphic which means 'mouth' and 'language' with its transliteration.

I embrace the rigours of science and the poetry of expression.

Rather than studying various disciplines, it is more like I am using them as a way to explore myself and the universe in which I live.

I can witness the changes of times in transcribing ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs; I can savour the thrill of decipherment while gazing at the Rosetta Stone; I can glimpse the intricacies of cosmos by twirling the armillary sphere.

In this never-ending pursuit for knowledge, the answer is by no means my eternal destination.

I see myself as a bridge connecting all the things in this world, always observing, always discovering.

Rosetta-罗塞塔: Using one language to decode another language. If you watch closely then numbers could also reveal the answer.

Launch Project

Preface: Dedicated to Rosetta

Medium:

Plywood, Acrylic

Size:

20cm*10cm*3.5cm

language modular-letters

La lune, d'un brouillard blafard, Verse une lueur désespérée Sur les décombres du bazar, Qui rêve, comme une pensée. ——Charles Baudelaire

Medium:

Cyanotype, 3D print

Size:

Flexible

cyanotype geometric-reading

Decipher means more than ‘decoding a cipher’, it can also be ‘decoding a secret’. Humans excel at using one language to decipher another, as well as creating a model to fathom the mysteries of our universe. The journey began with a stone excavated in the 19th century, and shall continue with an armillary sphere i built today. This is my eternal voyage.

An armillary sphere centred with a stone – Consisting of five spherical framework of rings with different maps attached: a world map, a fantasy map, a mars map and two constellation maps. All of them represent humankind’s exploration towards various unknown areas.

Medium:

Acrylic, printed map, stone

Size:

24cm*18cm*33cm

armillary-sphere

A so-called fake thing would leave its trace in this world even after it disappeared. It may remain in one's mind and become an eternal historical pain. It may also exist in the form of a map which has been passed down from generation to generation. Or it may no longer be possible to investigate its authenticity, the only way to glimpse its past lies in the remaining traces.

Medium:

Clay, Modern artefacts

Size:

flexible

fake-fossils

When a glyph is disassembled into straights and curves, simple kitchen set could also become words. The blade of the knife is the determining factor for the font size, while the cup becomes the radian of everything. The utensils have set the rules, all I have to do is ink and press.