Brie Ruais’s expressive ceramics document her intense corporal encounters with clay while inviting reflection on the traces we leave behind on the earth. Through a performance of intuitive, urgent movement, Ruais creates abstract forms in clay using her body as a tool, shaping surfaces and contours with scrapes, gouges, and tears. Often undertaking projects with her own body weight in clay, Ruais’s emotionally and physically demanding practice posits the female body as a site of “strength, power, and agency.”
Artist portrait courtesy the artist and albertz benda, New York and Los Angeles. Photo by Nicholas Calcott.
