Ruth van Beek
dal 28/2/2008 al 8/4/2008
Segnalato da
28/2/2008
Ruth van Beek
Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
Reconstructions. The artist collects random snapshots, passport photos, slides and albums and cuts pictures from newspapers and old books. By folding, cutting and combining the material she gives the images a new meaning, creating a hybrid which intertwines photography and drawing.
As part of the Foam_3h exhibition series, Foam presents Reconstructions by Ruth van Beek. Van Beek collects random snapshots, passport photos, slides and albums and cuts pictures from newspapers and old books. By folding, cutting and combining the material she gives the images a new meaning, creating a hybrid which intertwines photography and drawing. In Reconstructions Van Beek offers a whole range of images in which dancers fight, double portraits overlap, faces disappear, flowers morph into space-ships and wrecks are transformed into carcasses of extinct machines.
Van Beek treats the photos she collects as objects. She cuts open the once treasured pictures and rearranges them to find what she considers the story behind the photo. By matching photos in actual size and connecting similar elements in different pictures she lets the form, scale and colour interplay. The resulting image is a credible picture of something that never existed.
While a photo always depicts the past, Van Beek tries to show in her artificial pictures that there is no distinction between past and present. She has reshaped her collection of images into a dream world in which past, present and future interweave.
Ruth van Beek (b. 1977) graduated in 2002 at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam following a Master in Photography. She has participated in several group exhibitions, such as gallery Van Zoetendaal and Art Amsterdam. Her work regularly appears in various books and magazines. Ruth van Beek lives and works in Koog aan de Zaan.
FOAM Photography Museum
Keizersgracht 609 - Amsterdam
Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thu/Fri 10.00-21.00.
Tickets: euro 7