Rut Blees Luxemburg: Urban Night Project

International Week presentation: May 10th, 2023, 18:00, Room 401

What if the night, often underestimated in the discourse on cities and architecture, is the lifeworld that holds the keys to our everyday experience? Might the night be more than a rotation that recharges our daily life? Could the night as a transformative, less hierarchical space, let us dream our collective futurity?

Rut Blees Luxemburg (*1967 Germany) is an artist living and working in London. Her photographic work deals with the representation of the city and the phenomenon of the luminous. She is a Reader in Urban Aesthetics at the Royal College of Art, London. In 2020, she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the British Royal Photographic Society Solo exhibitions: Tate Liverpool, Museum of London. Group shows: Centre Pompidou, Paris; Whitechapel Gallery London. Her large-scale public work Silver Forest – a photographic cast of an urban forest – is installed on the façade of Westminster City Hall in Great Britain.