RUBY REDING 
Rotterdam

I’m an artist, researcher and curator, working with sculpture and moving image to figure our disconnection from resource supply chains and each other. I draw on the elemental and rhythmic to attune differently to our experiences of agency, proximity and metabolism under colonial and ecological degradation, pollution and late capitalism.

My research instigates fieldwork to sites of environmetental violence and sensing apparatus, such as water engineering sites, weather towers, mines and factories. I collect scrap materials and visit archives, asking how these methodologies can offer forms of material intimacy and solidarities.

I have facilitated workshops in Rotterdam and London at Turf Projects including collaborative filmmaking in the field, river ecologies and poetics. From 2023–2024, I was Researcher in the Fine Art department at Goldsmiths, University of London.


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RUBY REDING
Rotterdam

I work with sculpture, poetry and moving image to feel out our disconnection from resource supply chains, sites of infrastructure and each other. I draw on the elemental and rhythmic to attune differently to our experiences of agency, proximity and metabolism under late capitalism.

My research instigates fieldwork to sites of environmetental violence, sensing apparatus and infrastructure, such as water engineering sites, weather towers, mines and factories. I collect scrap materials and visit archives, asking how these methodologies can offer slanted knowledges and forms of material intimacy.




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01 soft/shadow metallurgies
ongoing sculpture and artistic field work project

soft/shadow metallurgies explores the global supply chains of aluminium in the context of energy transition and toxicity. Aluminium is used to make infrastructure, packaging and also weapons; how might we become more literate about the costs and developments at stake in metal production?
 
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2025- present

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02 shadow circuits, curated exhibition at MaMA, Rotterdam 

Each work in this exhibition offers a tending to the otherwise unnoticed forces that keep global circulations flowing; ghost labourers on palm fields, hidden gas infrastructures and invasive species caught on ships.

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February – May 2026






03 Energy Literacy for a Just Transition, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis exhibition/residency at E-WERK, Luckenwalde

Collaborative field research residency, exhibition and video installation on biomass energy production, pine monocultures and energy literacy.  

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July 2025

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04  reaching in contrails

reaching in contrails are a series of hanging sculptures composed of scrap aluminium, textiles, steel and resin. The work constitutes an affective and multi-scalar reach from scrap junk yards and the discarded zones of material, to a physical encounter with an arm-like gesture.  

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Tent, Rotterdam 2025

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05 all this distance (2025)

This project is a poetic meditation on how infrastructure and slow environmental violence have shaped our contemporary conditions of closeness and distance. Featuring sites that are often out-of-sight to the public, such as a deep sea cables, the film highlights the materiality of our hyperconnected world. Through a series of rhythmic landscape images, ‘all this distance’ tends to the elemental and atmospheric, drawing out our need for control and order in different types of measuring and scientific apparatus.

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Tent Rotterdam, 2025

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06 leaving the tributary (2025)

leaving the tributary explores liquidity, intimacy and affect, and the unfurling connotations with time and damp interiors due to the energy and climate crisis. A figure is searching along the river at night and in the daytime, discovering fly-tipped garbage and the mechanical noises of the Wandsworth National Grid.

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07 conditions of sanctuary (2023)

Printed poems and photographs on yellow A6 postcards, river detritus, biodegradable plastic pouch.

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08 kistéXdrifter (2022)

“kistéXdrifter was shot in October 2022 in Athens during a residency at Snetha Project Space. The film dives into complex issues of toxicity and biodiversity, initiating an in-situ research at different river locations near Athens, currently in a process of peri-urbanization, creating a hybrid space between a city and a countryside. Her camera follows a protagonist both in the fringes and the center of Athens.”
—Curator, Eleni Riga

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09 The Dragon Walk (2022)

The Dragon Walk explores the former RAF site Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. The film is informed by the droughts experienced in the summer of 2022, the histories of anti-nuclear activism, and the depletion of the commons.

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764—39/23
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