01/08/2025
Nosotros, 172 años después
We, 172 Years Later
Ruby Rumié was born in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia-a city of contrasts, recognized for having one of the most important historic and touristic centers of the country, but at the same time having high levels of social inequality and extreme poverty. In the middle of this panorama, Rumié focuses her work towards social problems, traversing various disciplines such as ethnography, psychology, and so-ciology; to address situations like gentrification, gender violence, social barriers, and the splendor of small trades; throughout all of which, art and its connections with communities has been the connecting thread.
Her oeuvre includes painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installation; mediums that are employed to represent the body, sometimes through volumetric structures; other times in large-scale installations in which repetition works as a platform for protest; and also in photographs which dilute differences in social status. All of which is done with the concept of creating narratives that inspire reflection, play, visual pleasure, emotion, and questioning.
In this context Rumié has exhibited projects such as the following in museums and galleries around the world: Getsemani: Subject / Object (2003); Common Place
(2008), in collaboration with the artist Justine Graham; Wholesale & Detail (200g); Divine Breath (2014);
Weaving Streets (2016-2017); The Fall (2021-2024); and We: 172 Years Later (2023).
In the year 2016 Rumié was chosen for a Rockefeller Foundation grant to participate in a multidisciplinary program in the Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy along with fourteen other grantees from various countries. In 2017, She received the Women Together prize from the same international organization at their United Nations center, along with fifteen women from different countries; and in the 2021 she received the Institución Universitaria Bellas Artes y Ciencias de Bolívar’s (UNIBAC) Epifanio Garay medal, their highest honor.
Ruby Rumié lives and works in Cartagena, Colombia.
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