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Ruth Ewan

The Museum would like to invite you to the meeting with Agata Pyzik, focused around the works of a British artist, Ruth Ewan.

During the meeting, we will be searching for answers to several questions: what is Ruth Ewan’s “decimal clock”? An attempt to measure out time in the French Revolution era or to revolutionize time? An appropriation of time – the joint intangible property? A proof of how little relevance the past revolutions have, since the significance of their rituals and demands has long been forgotten?

The British artist Ruth Ewan (1980) is one of the many whose art hits right in the middle of social relations. They produce processes, design social relations, defrost history from the stagnation of oblivion and stir up the nest of inequalities, although they themselves – as artists – are entangled in an organic relation with the capitalism and the establishment. Ewan’s objects become the machines of revolution. We will get to know what art has in common with the demands of the former radicals, with the labour movements of the Chartists, with the Situationists, with Paul Robson, the Afro-American singer who, having emigrated to the USSR, became a star and a Cold War hero, or with the experimental social schools in the Scotland of the 1930s. We will be trying to make sketches of what the new type of artistic practice would look like - the practice which exhumes history and becomes a testimony to historical changes.