WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, South Africa
25 May 2017 - 01 Jul 2017
Ruby Swinney Out Of Many Waters, 2017 Oil on tracing paper 83.5 x 59.5 cm, courtesy of WHATIFTHEWORLD
WHATIFTHEWORLD present Ignis Fatuus a debut exhibition by painter and installation artist Ruby Swinney.
Ruby Swinney’s work explores what it means to live in a vanishing natural world that is growing progressively darker and unfamiliar. Through the blurring of both South African and imaginary landscapes her work evokes a sense of loss of faith in what it means to be human in a time of intolerance, mistrust, violence and environmental uncertainty. Drawing on this uncertainty Swinney creates surreal tableaux in which she revels in the strange and unpredictable moods of the natural world and its ability to both alter and transcend human experience.
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