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“The performative actions that generate the sculptures tap into the body’s knowledge as opposed to the mind. I let the body and clay lead.”

• Brie Ruais

It is said that the body holds experiences and memories in ways that the mind does not. In Brie Ruais’s second solo exhibition at albertz benda, Some Things I Know About Being in a Body, the body is transmuted in clay, and forms emerge through material confrontation and collaboration. In exploring themes of embodiment, Ruais’ work further reflects upon the relationship between an individual's psychical interior world and the corporeal …