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Ruby Reding
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Ruby Reding is an artist and researcher from the UK, based in Rotterdam. She works with sculpture, poetry, archives and moving image to refigure our relationship to resources, extracted landscapes and each other. Conducting field work with sensory and collective methods, her work images infrastructures and temporalities that have been built by dominant scientific and colonial logic.

Through different cameras in filmmaking and scrap metals or textile in sculpture, she explores what kinds of gathering and gaze might offer alternative forms of relation and value beyond capital. She has worked at the interdisciplinary intersections across meteorology, hydrology and mining sectors.

Ruby’s recent project on aluminium and bauxite enquires into metal supply chains, the extraction of metals, changes in soil and military histories. It asks why we are drawn to shiny materials, and the evolution of ‘lustre’, the light of minerals in geology, as emerging from whiteness, and a draw to weightlessness, domination and control.  

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all this distance
two channel 4k film, 10. min, 15 sec.

all this distance (2025) 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.

Two faded lovers address each other through poetic letters that entangle romance and connection with the fraught conditions of pollution and grief that come with ecological devastation. Footage was taken during fieldwork by the artist in the Netherlands and the UK including of meteorological, hydraulic engineering and deep sea cables sites; namely Waterloopbos in Marknesse, a Tenet undersea cable construction site in Wijk aan Zee, Cabauw tower (atmospheric remote sensing site) near Utrecht and a beach in Orkney, Scotland.