Ruby Reding
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Ruby Reding is an artist and researcher working with sculpture, poetry and archives to re-attune our relationship to mineral and metal extraction. Working across global scales of supply chains, she tends to the infrastructures and temporalities of dominant and violent governance that fuel mining, energy and commodity production. Through intimacy, closeness and abstraction, shapes and images in her works urge us to confront the relations that make up resource flows.
Paying attention to the materiality of metallurgies, her works enquire into our psychic and relentless pursuit for strength beyond the capacity of our bodies and organic life. Recent work focusses on aluminium industry as it emerged from the British Empire during WWI, rare earth magnets including neodymium for wind turbine production and tungsten for military warfare.
Often working in collaboration with scientists, academics and technicians, she conducts fieldwork to sites that are often out-of-sight to the global public or bound around carceral architecture. Get in touch at rubyreding@gmail.com if you are interested in a collaboration, coffee, conversation.
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