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Featuring RU artist-in-residence Michal Luft in the RU Voices interview series 🎤
Michal Luft is an interdisciplinary artist based in Antwerp, Belgium. Her artistic practice encompasses photography and site-specific installations, in which she explores ordinary objects and spaces as reflections of human fragility and vulnerability. She is interested in the thin line between what we see and what is bubbling beneath the surface, the undercurrent of the everyday and the mundane. She captures, interprets, and meticulously recreates elements that may appear familiar but behave in unexpected ways. These objects – through their repetitive function, misplaced location, or redundancy – hint at deeper, often hidden issues. In her current fellowship at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, she carefully researches the layered notion of home and belonging through multiple perspectives. This study explores how personal and collective histories of displacement and migration, sorrow, and loss shape our perceptions of home. Luft also works with photography to expose the paradox of being both invisible and hyper-visible, overlooked yet conspicuously present.
✨ Michal’s works are on view in the exhibition “Whispers in Plain Sight” on Governors Island for one more weekend (September 27–28). Come see it at the RU House at 404B Colonels Row!
Michal’s residency is made possible with support from Artis.
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