Ruti de Vries' solo exhibition "Pocket Lines" marks the culmination of her six-month residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, supported by Artis through the Studio Partnership Program. In this exhibition, de Vries presents a site-specific installation combining textile, animation, sculpture, and sound to blur the boundaries between material, body, and media. Her short animated film, The Catchers (2026), features anthropomorphic figures composed of monochrome forms and black lines that move rhythmically within a web-like structure they simultaneously inhabit and create. The animated film is embedded within a textile installation whose color code is derived from photographs of Berlin’s urban landscape. Through the act of weaving, the work explores collective labor, rhythm, and production as interconnected creative forces—themes that resonate across the exhibition as a whole.
Ruti de Vries, still from The Catchers, 2025, digital animation, 08:35 min.