Ruby Swinney’s Hold Still placed ecological unease beneath dreamlike scenes

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

ArtThrob’s January 2020 review examined Ruby Swinney’s Hold Still at WHATIFTHEWORLD in Cape Town. The critic read the artist’s monochromatic oil paintings on silk as unsettling encounters between human leisure and environmental damage. Conservatories, pools and faceless figures become settings for questions about consumption, spectatorship and alienation from nature. The review argued that the apparent serenity of the works gives way to discomfort about their depicted world.

Summarised from ArtThrob · Misha Krynauw. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.