Ruth Buchanan
Ruth Buchanan is an artist of Taranaki, Te Atiawa and Pākehā decent living in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. She works across exhibition making, writing, design, and teaching. Her work draws out the contested and dynamic relationship between the body, power, language and the archive.
This process of contesting often relates closely to the types of relationships that standardised infrastructures, such as archives, libraries, and museums create between our bodies and society at large and actively asks how these relationships could be otherwise.
Artwork credit: Ruth Buchanan, Bad Visual Systems, 2016/2018 (excerpt)
