Ruth Höflich
To Feed your Oracle
22 May 2021 > 22 August 2021
Tuesday to Sunday, 11AM > 4PM
Ruth Höflich is an artist and filmmaker, born in Munich, Germany, and currently based in Melbourne. Often beginning with
photography, her multidisciplinary practice examines the process of image-making, which she sees as an imprint of the daily flow of energy
and information.
In 2019, Höflich was awarded the Georges Mora Fellowship. As part of the Fellowship, she developed a new body of work relating to the concept of magic, drawing inspiration from the Conjuring Collection at the State Library of Victoria.
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IMAGE > [Top] Ruth Höflich, To Feed your Oracle, 2021.
Photograph: Theresa Harrison Photography.
IMAGE > Portrait of Ruth Höflich. Photograph: Theresa Harrison Photography.
IMAGE > [Bottom] Ruth Höflich in her studio.
Photograph: Theresa Harrison Photography.
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In an installation of video, photography and site intervention, To Feed Your Oracle explores how we might understand, or predict, things that we can’t see and how our expectations might affect how we experience the unknown.
Ruth Höflich’s work has been shown internationally in Munich, London, Glasgow, Lubov, New York and Rotterdam International Film Festival amongst others. Höflich has been an artist in residence at Grizedale Arts, UK, The Banff Centre, Canada and Maracuya, Tijuana. In 2016 she received the Emerging Artist Prize from the City of Munich. Höflich is also one part of Halpert/Höflich, a collaborative practice engaged with artists’ publishing and performance. She holds an MFA from Bard College, New York and BA from The Slade, London.
I was interested in looking at the Conjuring Collection and different concepts of magic, from
inattentional blindness to divination, to magic as a portal to the unknown.
Ruth Höflich, 2020
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"Ruth's interest in magic lies in its disruption of logical sense patterns,
and in its potential to offer alternative modes of being in and experiencing the world."
georgesmorafellowship.org.au, 2019
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Meet the Artist > Ruth Höflich
Tuesday 8 June 2021, 6PM to 7PM, FREE Live on YouTube and Facebook
Join Curator Juliette Hanson for a thought-provoking conversation with leading mid-career Melbourne based artist Ruth Höflich, to explore
the ideas behind her work and practice.
Meet the Artist > Natasha Bieniek
Saturday 19 June 2021, 2PM to 3PM, FREE Live on YouTube and Facebook
Join Director Melinda Martin for an intimate conversation with this six-time Archibald Prize finalist, to learn more about her practice and
discuss her most recent works.
Meet the Artist > Vipoo Srivilasa
Thursday 22 July 2021, 6PM to 7PM, FREE Live on YouTube and Facebook
Join Curator Juliette Hanson for more insight into Thai-born, Melbourne-based artist, curator and arts activist Vipoo Srivilasa’s
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