Mark Le Ruez uses film, video, photography and drawing to make work that explores the confluence between stability and change. Frequently utilising found or existing material and employing a process of reduction, his interest in degrees of permanence being subject to alteration manifests itself literally in acts of appropriation, and metaphorically through an underlying approach. Maintaining a deep interest in the history of film, both drawing and video work produced in 2010 is founded on material of a cinematic origin.

 

Am Ende brings together three separate sequences derived from films that conclude with a prolonged facial study of a key character. The central and most constant image features a woman slowly removing the mask of her make-up whilst two men appear at each side of her seemingly disappearing and reappearing in response to the woman’s actions. All of the characters displayed have been beaten in their attempts to achieve their individual goals. In this regard, the piece alludes to an allegory of defeat and the recognition of an uncertain future within a triptych of altered destinies.

 

Works by Mark Le Ruez have been selected for group exhibitions by Bluetenweiss in Berlin, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Royal Photographic Society. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at Bloc Projects in Sheffield, the Garrik Gallery in Jersey, and the Jersey Museum.