Reassembly Second Thursday: Building a Bigger Bunny

Expanding on Ruth van Beek's Assembly submission, The Largest Rabbit (Assembly / Catalog No. 0085), into a wall-sized work, visitors are encouraged to engage directly with her process, scanning copies of rabbits from van Beek’s archive, printing, cutting, and pasting them into a single, larger rabbit.

Snacks, beverages, and materials provided.

ABOUT RUTH VAN BEEK

Ruth van Beek (b. 1977) lives and works in Koog aan de Zaan, the Netherlands. Her work has been shown internationally with exhibitions at Post Books (Tokyo), The Ravestijn Gallery (Amsterdam), De Warande (Brussels), Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco), Foam (Amsterdam), Les rencontres d’Arles, and Fotomuseum Antwerp. She has been teaching at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam since 2014. She has published numerous artist’s books including The Arrangement (RVB Books, 2013) which was shortlisted for the Aperture Photobook of the Year Award in 2014; The Cast (New Documents, 2017); and How To Do The Flowers (APE & Dashwood Books, 2018) to widespread acclaim. Her most recent books, both published at Van Zoetendaal Publishers, are Eldorado (2020) and The Oldest Thing (2023), which was shortlisted for the Aperture Photobook of the Year 2023. She is represented by The Ravestijn Gallery in Amsterdam.

ABOUT ULISES: REASSEMBLY

A year after presenting Ulises: Assembly at Tufts University Art Galleries, Ulises revisits the question at the heart of the project—What do you do?—this time asking, How do you do it?

Reassembly brings together three independent art publishers: Can Can Press (Mexico City, Mexico), Further Reading (Bandung, Indonesia), and Ruth van Beek (Koog aan de Zaan, Netherlands), whose contributions to Assembly inspired a closer examination of their practices. This new presentation invites visitors to engage with their work to gain insight into the processes, materials, and concepts that shape each practice.

Exhibited alongside the cataloged Assembly archive, Reassembly extends an ongoing conversation about the labor and care that shape the field of independent art publishing.

The exhibition considers the material, conceptual, and social dimensions of publishing, and the forms of attention, collaboration, and repetition that define the work behind the work. Reassembly invites new ways of engaging with the publishers’ methods, materials, and research, foregrounding the relationship between what we do and how we do it.

The exhibition runs through March 22.

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