Jiaxin Wu 伍嘉欣

Hi, people! 

I'm Jiaxin, from China, an illustrator working with 2D and 3D visuals.

People say I have multiple personalities. Sometimes cheerful, sometimes eccentric. Perhaps being a Gemini, my mysterious character makes people confused, but I say that these qualities are my secret weapons that allow me to create. I am inspired by examining social rules and am curious about multiple identities. My work focuses on using moving images to express the relationship between the self and social roles, using fun ways of working to present serious issues for discussion.

At this stage, I have many incarnations; Young Woman, Student, New Generation... Each of these roles comes with certain social constraints. These multiple identities are all more or less entangled by the meaning of their labels. The more I was suppressed, the more I wanted to escape.

I created a series of playful images using motion graphics as a medium. The grotesque characters bring repressed feelings, reflected to their surfaces. The lovable forms are my internal dialogue, and the distorted images reflect the deformed identity constructed by labels in society. In the process of making it, I have been thinking about how to express complex emotions with humorous visuals and give a hidden voice a stereoscopic shape.