Event
Ruby Swinney: Ignis Fatuus
Cape Town, South Africa
May 25, 2017 - Jul 01, 2017

Ruby Swinney: Ignis Fatuus
10 May 2017
Closes: 1 July 2017
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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