Xianda Hu

Chu Silk Manuscript

Various Size, 2017
Animation, 3:55

Chu Silk Manuscript is a visualized animation project that investigates the transformation of ancient texts into contemporary visual languages. The work takes the Chu Silk Manuscript—an excavated Warring States–period silk book—as its primary reference, drawing on its mythological narratives and symbolic structures while reinterpreting them through animation. The project seeks to preserve the textual coherence of the original manuscript while translating its temporal, spatial, and mythological dimensions into dynamic visual storytelling.

《楚帛书》是一个视觉化动画作品，旨在探索古代文本与当代视觉语言之间的转换关系。作品以战国时期出土的帛书《楚帛书》为研究对象，参考其中的神话叙事与象征符号，并通过动画再现其内容。在创作过程中，我注重在保持文本叙事脉络的同时，将古代文化语境中的时间性、空间性与神话意象转化为动态的视觉叙事。