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In Ruti de Vries’s animated video The Catchers (2026), several anthropomorphic figures float onto the screen one after the other. Their bodies are assembled from bulging monochromatic shapes reminiscent of tents or rocks, as well as black lines that extend beyond the edge of the frame as arms and braids, suggesting a shared rootedness. They move in sync to a mechanically repetitive composition, which is gradually overlaid by a chorus. The more these bodies occupy the pictorial space, the more clearly their function emerges: they not only structure the colour fields of the composition, but also continually participate in the production of the work. The figures are embedded in a woven structure, a web of blue and red line, which they in turn help to create through their rhythmic movements. In the exhibition display, the work is framed by a piece of fabric that covers the entire wall and whose pattern recurs in the video. Ruti de Vries developed the colour codes for the textile from…
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In Ruti de Vries’s animated video The Catchers (2026), several anthropomorphic figures float onto the screen one after the other. Their bodies are assembled from bulging monochromatic shapes reminiscent of tents or rocks, as well as black lines that extend beyond the edge of the frame as arms and braids, suggesting a shared rootedness. They move in sync to a mechanically repetitive composition, which is gradually overlaid by a chorus. The more these bodies occupy the pictorial space, the more clearly their function emerges: they not only structure the colour fields of the composition, but also continually participate in the production of the work. The figures are embedded in a woven structure, a web of blue and red line, which they in turn help to create through their rhythmic movements. In the exhibition display, the work is framed by a piece of fabric that covers the entire wall and whose pattern recurs in the video. Ruti de Vries developed the colour codes for the textile from…
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