Ruth Sacks
Ruth Sacks (born September 27, 1977 in Port Elizabeth ) is a South African artist who mainly works in the field of installation art and performances .
Life
Sacks graduated in 2007 at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town with a Masters in Fine Arts from. She lives and works in Cape Town.
Work and way of working
In her work, Ruth Sacks uses fiction and history as stylistic devices in order to comment on and address the various contexts in which she works. All her work is based on a sensitivity to language and the associated possibility of translation errors. The installations, public interventions and texts she creates are subject to many influences. Ruth Sacks has already been represented in a large number of different exhibitions, including in the South African pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale and as part of the 1st Biennale for Architecture, Art and Landscape on the Canary Islands .
In 2011, Sacks took part in a program of the Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten (HISK) in Brussels as “ Artist in Residence ” .
Her works hang in the Museum for African Art in New York.
literature
- Anna Mecugni: Ruth Sacks. Art in America International Review, 2010, p. 84, 2010
- Alessandro Iaceolla: Ruth Sacks. Exibart, Volume 19, No. 64, p. 65, 2010
- Daniele Fiacco: Ruth Sacks at Gallery Extraspazzio, Rome, Art Key, 2010
- Sue Williamson: Ruth Sacks, South African Art Now, Collins Design, pp. 262f, 2009
Web links
- Homepage of the artist (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography at the João Ferreira Gallery ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sacks, Ruth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Port Elizabeth , South Africa |