Born in Guangdong and raised in Beijing, Ruocong Ma undertook a BFA degree in illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She continued her studies at the Royal College of Art on the master's programme in sculpture.
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Born in Guangdong and raised in Beijing, Ruocong Ma undertook a BFA degree in illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She continued her studies at the Royal College of Art on the master's programme in sculpture.
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Transdisciplinary artist Ruocong Ma is devoted to representing adolescent melancholic sexuality and feminism in our patriarchal society, in her oil painting, video, and soft sculpture. She celebrates the tenderness of tears and loneliness in a girlish voice, finding the treasure in a childish pipe dream and the stigmatized feminine. The twisted and ferocious silhouettes of the human skeleton highlight her inner spirit, one of collision and rebellion.
Woken up from my unprovoked melancholy,
Flames are licking my vulva
The scorched hair is screaming like a debarked bunny
Ah, Ah, Ah
Enjoying this gentle caress until I see you watching me from the other side
With a surge of weeping envy in your eyes
I know you are longing
Longing
Longing
Long for the Red Flame that Burns me to the ground to fall in love with you
Longing for the sticky hot tentacle to pierce your warm throat, entangle your tiny pink tongue, and suck your dirty blood up
Sewing your debris into my soft pillow
You’re always so naughty,
Like a red-faced child who can’t get candy,
Want Me to sleep in your arms every night.
The painting of Saintess revolves around the ambiguity, entanglement, and sacred devotion of four women, revealing the sweetness and venom of love and intimacy.
The noonday moon shines upon my bed,
I knew it, it’s all the moon’s fault
My lust, my ambition, my burning rage,
And my nit-picking love
All because of the distant white light that shone on my developing breasts in the torrents of spring.
Lucy had her first period.
From that day on, she was conscious of beauty,
conscious of love,
conscious of Sex
conscious of shiny jewelry,
conscious of you.
Lucy in Class Two was shown in the Together It Seams group show in Standpoint Gallery in April 2021.
White Moon explores the aggressive, silent acts of “Touching” and “Gazing” from a female perspective. In the murky white moonlight, two overlapping bodies are having a conversation that no one knows about.
Grass, Water, and Red Woman depicts a woman with a long red tail and a red shell crawling and walking through the wilderness. This experimental video describes the relationship between women, life, and nature in a stream of consciousness. and is devoted to the act of "Touching" between women, animals, and nature.
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The Bath Ball is a four-minute experimental video from the artist’s diary monologue. This soliloquy explores the relationship between loneliness and connectedness. During the pandemic period, she projected her expectations of being connected with others onto this non-living consumer product. The clay ball with the hole symbolised her excessive perceptivity. The death of the bath ball is caused simultaneously by the fate of consumer goods being used and the individual will of the bath ball itself.
2021.2.2
I’m in London.
In my quiet and tiny apartment,
With my cold bathwater.
Today, for the first time, I bought a bath ball,
Bubbling, bubbling, my little bath ball.
Lying on my stomach
Small and vital, like a baby
Dying on my belly button.
In Three minutes,
Fading away, fading away, fading away
I Can’t believe there’s a life out there, burning for me, Born just to be with me for three minutes
The bath ball had disappeared between my legs, and the coconut-flavored bubbles had dissolved into the water.
Go into my vagina, Go into my anus, Go into my ears, Go into my nostrils, Go into my pores, Go into my fingers.
Three minutes
We connected.
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