Jenn Ruff
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Jenn Ruff STATEMENT Collage is a religious practice wherein the material speaks and I listen. It’s about chance. It’s about seeing patterns and following signs. Part scavenger, part philosopher, part detective, I make hand-cut collages and assemblages out of everything around me. Collage helps me make sense of this over-saturated world whose stories are found in its remains. I mix old and new, astronomy, plants, film, the body; as well as found detritus (shells, rocks, feathers, trash). Collage is divination. I-ching. Everything is connected. Collage is a way of capturing that connection for a second, before it falls apart. BIO Jenn Ruff is an artist and film editor based in Brooklyn, New York. Ruff engages with her materials as instinctual ritual and believes that editing has the power to cast spells. Her work explores the alchemy that results from combining divergent shots, paper cut-outs, found objects and celluloid. Ruff has shown her videos and collages at Tracy Williams, I-20, Blum & Poe, Samson Projects and Taka Ishii in Tokyo, among others. She is an Assistant Arts Professor at New York University’s Tisch Graduate School of Film and has edited numerous independent films. Ruff was raised in the wilds of Colorado and New Mexico. ARTIST CONTACT IMAGES
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