LA PASTORA DE LAS COSAS
Guadalupe Ruiz

For several years, the work of Guadalupe Ruiz has taken the form of an inventory of images assembled as encyclopedias, a structure that she developed as a way of analysing the world and the society around her. In 2015, she published the Kleine Fotoenzyklopädie, a work gathering 645 colour and black-and-white images collected from daily life and organized into 37 different chapters: dogs, vases, varieties of pastry, a revolutionary manifesto, portraits of her cousin, objects photographed in her parents’ house, etc. To create her installation in the Juraplatz art space, Guadalupe Ruiz has continued to build the inventory of images that she began in her parents’ apartment as an attempt to reproduce and recapture what might be lost with the passage of time.

Year of production: 2018-2019