Shaar Haamakim Gallery, Jerusalem, Ha’Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2019.
Ruti de Vries revisits the objects of our everyday life more or less far away. To this end she collects them, lives with them – constrained and forced to live with them for a while – before working with them, embroidering, sewing, deconstructing and reconstructing them in order to create what she calls an “in-between” of the human being and the object.
She creates singular narratives that are less playful than they seem. There are new encounters through remodelling of the same kind. A “situationism” emerges that is more or less situable temporally and geographically. Thanks to the Tel-Aviv-born artist, a succession of offbeat and futuristic “landscapes” follow one another, teeming with delightful anachronisms.
The artist reinvents a spatiality in what is installation, exhibition and performance where everything remains in posture and openness.
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