MAREN RUBEN
ÉTAT D’AMOUR FRAGMENTÉ.
L’EXIL DE L’IMAGINAIRE
2 January - 1 March 2026
Via Tamaro 3
CH-6500 Bellinzona
CH-6500 Bellinzona
14:00 – 18:00
What Ruben offers us here is a sort of reflection about the state of the meta-contemporary world’s health, in which the individual’s relationship with the social group is subjected to the fragmentation of a society that struggles to recognise humanist pride as an inevitable element of a society with a strong sense of identity and a healthy dose of self-regard.
While her experience bears witness to the fundamental changes that took place in the twentieth century, it now observes the many and varied evolutions for which an unlikely form may be sought and that personify the weaknesses and fragilities of a generation that puts all its desperate trust in the digital universe...
Ruben neither develops nor makes a show of a militant language, nor even of a feminist one as she uses her art as a visual syntax or grammar, but actually tackles the eternal theme of the mise à nu within an endless process of production that is almost performative or scriptural. The delicacy of this endless or truly never-ending approach makes its narration, or the narration of the id, not just real, but true, and resistant to artificial models.
Mario Casanova, 2025.
Translated by Pete Kercher
Translated by Pete Kercher
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