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Ruby Reding
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I am an artist and researcher, working with sculpture, moving image and archives to refigure our relationship to resources, supply chains and extracted landscapes.

Conducting field work with sensory and collective methods, my work considers the globalised scales and remote intimacy of infrastructures and temporalities built by colonial logic. My works search for alternative forms of gaze, attachment and value beyond capital.

Figuring the role of science and engineering in structures of power and domination, I have worked with labs and archives from meteorology, hydrology and geology. 

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soft/shadow metallurgies 
ongoing sculpture and artistic research project

soft/shadow metallurgies asks: What forms of speculation, abstraction, and domination coordinate the compulsive attachments to what Kathryn Yusoff terms “white geology”? And what intimacies can be read back through the stages of separation between market and mine from which our geomaterialized fetishes recur?

Images in the artworks are from diagrams of industrial aluminium and copper production, scenes from stockbrokers at the London Metal Exchange, fieldwork photographs of aluminium production, and hand gestures taken from archival photographs of labourers of metal industry during WWII. The sculpture aims to think about the history, present and future of metal extraction, suggesting that we should become more aware of where our critical raw materials come from, and the power structures that linger behind them.