RUT BLEES LUXEMBURG IS WELL KN...
Rut Blees Luxemburg is well known for her investigations into the urban landscape. Through her work she explores how the cityscape both reflects and affects the human condition. Luxemburg takes photographs at night on the edge of the centre of the city, long exposures allow her to use the light emanating from the street only – from office blocks and street lights.The resulting works are strange and beautiful, sometimes immediately recognisable whilst others are almost abstract, flooded with green and golden light. Urban landscapes often seem threatening and dehumanising, but through these poetic and seductive works Luxemburg draws us in, makes us look again and hints at new ways of seeing and interacting with the cities we inhabit.
In fall 2004 an opera she wrote debuted at the Institute for Contemporary Arts.
The opera is based on the artist’s photographic series of the same title, with a libretto by philosopher Alexander Garcia Düttmann and a score by composer Paul Clark.