I am an artist based in Rotterdam, working with moving image, poetry and sculpture. My approach combines fieldwork, workshops, writing, conversations with scientists, collecting scrap metal and visits to archives.
Forming a diagrammatic methodology, I explore infrastructure, ecology and scientific knowledge production. I use a methodology of closeness in camerawork to bring the far away management of resources near, exploring what distance and proximity feels like in a globalised, digital world. Works combine poetic and dialogic language to feel out relational dynamics, emotions and affects. My research is informed by feminist and decolonial ethnographic methodologies, engaging with different sites with reciprocity, collaboration and listening practices.
I often present films either as one or two channel, in cinema, community and exhibition contexts. Using minor and major technologies such as iPhones or GoPros alongside cinematic images and scrap metal, my moving image installations are site-specific and play with provisional and unstable materials. In sculpture, I have worked with scrap metals, casting, glass and textiles.
E: rubyreding@gmail.com
IG: @rubyvenus