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Rut Blees Luxemburg in the Forum II

A reviewew of Rut Blees Luxemburg, Commonsensual, 20 November 2008, Forum The lights are already out, and the projected image arrests you immediately. A scattering of spots, shimmer back under a golden light. The ambiguousness of what they are intrigues, and plays with your perceptions. Could it be distant lights out of focus on a rainy night or coins under water? The images we are about to see comprise the past 15 years of Rut Blees Luxemburg’s work. We are guinea pigs, she says. The order in which she will show them will not be chronological …