Ruti de Vries / joining Fireflies Project

We are excited to announce that artist Ruti de Vries is joining Fireflies Project. De Vries graduated Bezalel MFA (2015) after gaining her B. Ed. from Beit Berl College, HaMidrasha (2012). Her artistic endeavor cannot be summed up with a single definition, she is a sculptor, a painter, a collage artist, a seamstress, a graphic designer and an animator. She represents human, hybrid and animal-like creatures using sculpture, installation, collage, sewing and drawing in an approach that oscillates between figuration and abstraction. Her realism results from reciprocal action and reaction between media, materials, cultures, traditions, inspiration sources, and influences. She probes beneath the immediate layer of the consumer culture, delving below its surface to marry it with myths, superstitions, sorcery, fashion, pop, punk, superheroes, obsessions, and clichés.

Her recent solo exhibitions were at Herzliya Artists’ Residence (2019), the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2018) and Schimmel Projects Art Centre, Dresden (2018) to name a few. She is expected to have a solo show at PRAM Studio, Prague (2021) and participate in a group show in Petach Tikva Museum of Art (2021).

The images are from de Vries shows: Folded Fold of a Handing Hand, 2018, Schimmel Projects Art Centre Dresden (photos by Rasmus Roos Lindquist); Heavy Sadness, 2019, Ha’Amakim Gallery, Kibbutz Sha’ar Ha’amakim (photos by Goni Riskin); I saw a lot of people in the street, one of them asked me what time it was, 2019, Artists Residence Herzliya (photos by Dor Even Chen). Portrait of Ruti de Vries by Goni Riskin