Ruth van Beek’s work originates in her ever-growing archive. The images, mainly from old photo books, are her tools, source material and context. Van Beek physically intervenes within the pictures. By folding, cutting,or adding pieces of painted paper, she rearranges and manipulates the image until her interventions reveal the universe that lay within them. Merely by suggestion, van Beek triggers the imagination, and therefore the discomfort, of the viewer: passive human hands are animated…

The Summershow 2016 Exhibition: June 4 - September 3, 2016 Opening: Friday , 3 June, 5-7 pm

The Ravestijn gallery is proud to present “New Arrangements”, an exhibition of Ruth van Beek’s kinetic photographic collages. Van Beek combines everyday, found photographs with paint, cutting or folding to inspire a unique dialogue between image and object. Collage is central to van Beek’s work, transforming her appropriated photographic images into a newly tactile object, both concrete and illusory. The works form a tension between what the viewer readily sees a…