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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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leaving the tributary, Installation at Piet Zwart Institute, 2024
Projected film, scrap metal, cast alluminium, insulation fibre, textile seams, duct tape, found lamps, cast bio resin, glass 

leaving the tributary explores liquidity, intimacy and affect, and the unfurling connotations with time and damp interiors due to the energy/climate crisis and poor housing infrastructure. The film combines footage of the river Wandle in South London alongside a scene in which a lover/friend wakes up in a bed of water inside a dark room. A figure is searching along the river at night and in the daytime, discovering fly-tipped garbage and the mechanical noises of factories including the Wandsworth National Grid.