Opening weekend: Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 November, 2020 from 12:00 - 17:00
The Ravestijn Gallery presents the exhibition The Nursery, an exhibition with new works by Ruth van Beek. In 2018, van Beek published How To Do The Flowers, an absurdist manual of strange instructions and unfinished collages in which the building of a body was a persistent thought. Since then, the physicality and animation of lifeless matter has played an increasingly important role in her work. Using How To Do The Flowers as a guide, The Nursery continues this fascination with the transformation of forms into bodies and the possibilities of photographs as both representations and objects.
Ruth van Beek’s work has been shown internationally at FOMU (BE); ETAL Gallery, (US); The Ravestijn Gallery (NL); Les Rencontres d’Arles (FR); Flowers Gallery (UK) and Fraenkel Gallery (US) amongst others. Her work has been featured in magazines such as Centrefold Magazine, Foam Magazine, IMA Magazine, The British Journal of Photography, The Aperture Photobook Review, Financial Times, Elephant Magazine and The New York Times. She has published numerous artist books including The Arrangement (2013) which was shortlisted for the Aperture Photobook of the Year Award in 2014 and How To Do The Flowers (2018), co-published by Art Paper Editions (BE) and Dashwood Books (US) to widespread acclaim.
Her new book, Eldorado, made in collaboration with Willem Van Zoetendaal and published by Van Zoetendaal Publishers, will be available for purchase during the exhibition.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic we have a dedicated entrance and exit, we offer hand cleaning gel and mouth masks. We allow 10 visitors at a time inside the gallery space. The artist will be present during the opening weekend. For a private tour please contact the gallery, we will be happy to organize this.