Ruby Reding (b. 1995) is an artist and researcher based in Rotterdam and London working with moving image, text and installation. Forming a diagrammatic methodology, she explores industrial landscapes, liquidity, colonial/scientific knowledge production, and the connections between us. Ruby uses a methodology of closeness in camerawork and an auto-ethnographic approach to bring the far away management of resources near, exploring what distance and proximity between loved ones feels like in a globalised, digital world. Using minor and major technologies such as iPhones or GoPros alongside cinematic images and scrap metal, her moving image installations are site-specific and play with provisional and unstable materials.
Her research methodology combines site visits, iPhone photographs, workshops, recording sounds, conversations with scientists, reading theoretical and poetic texts and visits to archives related to particular localities.
E: rubyreding@gmail.com
IG: @rubyvenus