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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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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.