Ruth van Beek - Untitled (grey figure), 2010
Ruth van Beek - Untitled (grey figure), 2010
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Ink on fine art paper, mounted on aluminium
30 x 24,5 cm
Signed, titled, dated and numbered on a label
Edition of 8
About the work
Ruth van Beek lives and works in Koog aan de Zaan, the Netherlands. In her work she uses the conventional visual codes of photography to trick the viewers into a belief in the importance of the concerning object, even if the object is not identifiable. She has collected a ton of photographic material which she archived in her home and where she arranges existing photo’s in constantly changing manners. The main source for her quirky and playful collages are books and magazines, dating back to 1950 – 1980, often found in thrift shops across Europe and the States. By adding shapes, cutting and folding and merge found pictures together, she makes new visual connections. The images show smiling trees, carefully cut and pasted guinea pigs, houseplants covered with snow or old photographs pieced together. In new and absurd ways, Ruth creates new work, often received with an unsettling or comical effect.
About the photographer
Ruth van Beek, born in 1977 in Zaandam, Netherlands, completed her Master in Photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2002. Her work has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions across cities like Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, Austin, New York, San Francisco, and Beijing. Van Beek’s photography has appeared in numerous international publications, including Time Magazine, Capricious, Foam Magazine, Fantom Magazine, Rodeo, It's Nice That, and the British Journal of Photography, which named her one of 20 photographers to watch in 2013.She published books at RVB BOOKS in Paris, The Hibernators (2011), The Arrangement (2013) and The Levitators (2016)
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