Brücke

‘Brücke’, the German word for bridge, took as its starting point the many bridges situated throughout the city of Dortmund and its outskirts. Over a period of weeks, these bridges were photographed and then brought together to make one long frieze that remapped and reimagined the city. From here, an installation was created that sought to extend, play with and subvert the notion of meeting points.

In visiting the gallery, one is struck by a double and contradictory impression, one of an urban landscape and one of a carefully cultivated garden. Throughout this exhibition Le Ruez constantly reminds us that his interest in sculpture is neither for the massive nor imposing forms most classically associated with this medium. His interest is sourced in the heart of fragility, in what from the top of a stick can fall and shatter, what breaks, crumples, stretches but resists and never collapses.

 Excerpt from an essay ‘The plate Juggler’ by Maud Haya Baviera, written in conjunction with the exhibition.