The silence of the water says what I think

Description

“Playing with subtle presences on the verge of absence, my work challenges on our usual ways of engaging with our surroundings. I create glass objects and installations asking for care and attention from the audience as nothing much seems to happen to the rushing eye. Reflecting on the difference between seeing and looking – difference lying in the active attention and intention put into the latter – I invite the audience to actively co-create a moment in time within my installations. Active spectatorship is at the heart of my practice as I believe that being conscious of our own agency to the world is key. Like Alva Noë rightly wrote:  « The world is not simply available; it is achieved rather than given», « perception is not something that happens to us or in us, it is something we do ». ”

Judith ROUX
Born in 1992
BFA, Glass department, Gerrit Rietveld Academy
Honours programme (Art and Research), Gerrit Rietveld Academy & University of Amsterdam
BFA, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art et de Design, Dijon

Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2022, Reborn, Werkspoor International Art Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2019, Glass Generation, Glasmuseum Lette – Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld, Germany
2019, Almost Unreal, Museum JAN, Amstelveen, the Netherlands
2017 Young Glass, National Glass Center, Sunderland, the UK; Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark; Glass Factory, Boda Glasbruk, Sweden

Awards and Grants (Selected)
2020, Shortlisted for the Bernadine de Neeve Prijs
2018, 2nd Prize Stanislav Libensky Award