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Hierarchies are present everywhere in our world. Perhaps this is because of one essential hierarchy that is often taken for granted despite its fiction: the superiority of the human above the animal and the material. Though this is not the place to discuss the genealogy of such a worldview, to say that it has shaped the way that most people live and the environments they inhabit is an understatement. A question for many artists of the past decade or so has thus concerned the ‘return’ of things non-human, and how to deal with their refusal of centuries of being underplayed. Broadly speaking, the artist is no longer handed the world as a loose collection of things that can be embellished, formally examined, or recontextualised. Finding herself among all this, Anna Ruth has not assumed the burden of reanimating once-dead matter or shuffling around the consequences of ‘entanglement’. Instead, she has documented the experience of chancing upon life in unexpected places.…
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Hierarchies are present everywhere in our world. Perhaps this is because of one essential hierarchy that is often taken for granted despite its fiction: the superiority of the human above the animal and the material. Though this is not the place to discuss the genealogy of such a worldview, to say that it has shaped the way that most people live and the environments they inhabit is an understatement. A question for many artists of the past decade or so has thus concerned the ‘return’ of things non-human, and how to deal with their refusal of centuries of being underplayed. Broadly speaking, the artist is no longer handed the world as a loose collection of things that can be embellished, formally examined, or recontextualised. Finding herself among all this, Anna Ruth has not assumed the burden of reanimating once-dead matter or shuffling around the consequences of ‘entanglement’. Instead, she has documented the experience of chancing upon life in unexpected places.…
