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Ru´s visions
Here, everything is in constant transformation.
Like a single stream of dreams the traces of their artistic research interwine, juxtapose, collide and overlap.
Like a single stream of dreams the traces of their artistic research interwine, juxtapose, collide and overlap.
Ru, Chiara De Maria is a visual artist and creative director based in Berlin. With an academic background in Photography, a Master's in Contemporary Visual Arts and in Biodiversity Conservation Management, their practice moves at the intersection of art, ecology, and participatory research.
Using photography, video, installations as tools for a critical and collaborative creative process, their work is rooted in long-term field research and community engagement.
Since 2021, their practice has increasingly focused on the relationship between humans and wild plants — through participatory projects that weave together storytelling and collective moments, as well as tools and experiences designed to foster a more attentive engagement with the living world in shared urban spaces.
Ru observes wild plants as research companions: presences capable of suggesting forms of adaptation, coexistence, and resilience. Like them, they move across boundaries and territories in transformation, seeking new possibilities for connection and movement.
They currently work as a freelance creative director through Studio Selva.
Using photography, video, installations as tools for a critical and collaborative creative process, their work is rooted in long-term field research and community engagement.
Since 2021, their practice has increasingly focused on the relationship between humans and wild plants — through participatory projects that weave together storytelling and collective moments, as well as tools and experiences designed to foster a more attentive engagement with the living world in shared urban spaces.
Ru observes wild plants as research companions: presences capable of suggesting forms of adaptation, coexistence, and resilience. Like them, they move across boundaries and territories in transformation, seeking new possibilities for connection and movement.
They currently work as a freelance creative director through Studio Selva.