Ruth Sacks

Ruth Sacks ( born September 27, 1977 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa) is a South African artist who works primarily in the field of installation art and performances.

Life

Sacks graduated in 2007 at the University of Cape Town with a Masters in Fine Arts. She lives and works in Cape Town.

Work and working methods

In her work, Ruth Sacks used fiction and history as a stylistic device to ensure that the various contexts in which it operates, annotate and thematize. All of their work is based on a sensitivity for language and associated with this possibility of translation errors. The she creates installations, public interventions and texts are subject to many influences. Ruth Sacks was already included in a number of different exhibitions, including the South African pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale and at the 1st Biennial of Architecture, Art and Landscape in the Canary Islands.

Sacks takes 2011 as the " Artist in Residence" in a program of HISK ( Higher Institute for Fine Arts) in Brussels.

Her works hang at the Museum of African Art in New York.