AKINCI is excited to announce Ruby Swinney’s upcoming solo exhibition Amid the Alien Corn, on view from 1 November – 21 December, 2024. Ruby Swinney (b. 1992) is a South African painter who works primarily with oil on silk and oil on tracing paper. She uses vibrant monochromatic colour to find form, employing painting as a medium not only for image-making but also world-making. Her work transcends into a parallel world where strangely obscured and mysterious figures inhabit timeless landscapes. These surreal and immersive recreations of natural environments depict the precariousness of human existence within these. In doing so, Swinney’s paintings evoke our present uncertainties and our yearning for a vanishing natural world that is growing darker and more unfamiliar.
