Simon Le Ruez works across a variety of media that includes sculpture, installation, video and drawing. For the exhibition “As Poison Leaks Away” he will also be showing “Mariannenplatz”, 2010, a new photographic projection work.
Le Ruez’s practice celebrates the notion of both an idea and a chosen medium transcending itself. “L’Entrée des Groites”, 2010, is a work that encapsulates this aspiration. A monochrome postcard of three men outside the entrance of a cave has been overlaid in part by a deep red acrylic paint. For the artist this work, as a consequence of its appropriation, has the power to be simultaneously sculptural, filmic and painterly. Other works in the exhibition appear to take their lead from this. Large-scale floor based paper works operate like spacial drawings with fine lines of thread, glass spheres and foam balls accentuating gestures that allude to both landscape and human forms.
These works play with an aesthetic that again challenges the viewer to consider inherent material qualities and their subversion. In Le Ruez’s works, an opposition is at play and complicit conflicts are always present. As a means to fully implicate the viewer in these unfolding tensions Le Ruez explores these ideas in a way where the potential for movement, progression and change is a pertinent one.