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Ruby Swinney, Mystery of Faith (detail), 2017. Oil on paper, Approx. 290 x 270 cm
Ruby Swinney, Mystery of Faith (detail), 2017. Oil on paper, Approx. 290 x 270 cm

Ruby Swinney at Whatiftheworld

A by Artthrob on the 23rd of May 2017. This should take you < 1 minute to read.

IGNIS FATUUS
RUBY SWINNEY

EXHIBITION OPENING
THURSDAY 25 MAY: 18H00 – 20H00

Ignis Fatuus
Those–dying then,
Knew where they went–
They went to God’s Right Hand–
That Hand is amputated now

And God cannot be found–
The abdication of Belief
Makes the Behavior small–

Better an ignis fatuus–
Than no illume at all–

Poem 1551 by Emily Dickinson (1882)

 

WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to present Ignis Fatuus – a debut solo exhibition by painter and installation artist Ruby Swinney. 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.


 

WHATIFTHEWORLD
1 Argyle Street
Woodstock, 7925
Cape Town, South Africa

Viewing Hours
Tues – Fri 09.00 – 17.00
Sat 09.00 – 14.00
Or by appointment

T. +27 (21) 447 2376
M. +27 84 685 1671
E. mia@whatiftheworld.com

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