一顆大型的果凍球滾過地景，所到之處，一切都被吸收，它隨之變得更巨大，也改變了樣貌，它不挑也不選，兼容並蓄。
對艾瑞兒．露比來說，這顆果凍球象徵台灣一直以來的演變，各種不同的事件、元素在此交融，刻劃出特殊的文化地景。
藝術家累積了許多類似的物件－液態與固態、有生命的與人工的、新的與廢棄的。她對有機物或合成材料一視同仁，當然有時候，這兩者的分界並不明顯。
展覽的靈感源自不同的故事、民間宗教、儀式、傳統，這些龐雜的觀點與當代世界碰撞與交織，作品針對兩極化的差異提出質疑，探討其存在的可能性。
利用多媒材的裝置，展現多樣貌的微觀世界，創造出讓人身歷其境又生動的體驗，作品看似從黑暗中生成，以探求光明，每個世界都敘說著一個故事，喚起在”自然”中能激起類似情緒的感官體驗，將現實世界裡日常生活的魔法，呈現在觀眾面前。
艾瑞兒．瑪麗雅．露比．瑪瑟．帕米思
艾瑞兒．露比來自澳洲，是一位義大利裔的藝術家，她對於家這個概念，還有那些她能想像到的地方，都有很深的情感連結。作品包含栩栩如生的動態世界，充滿閃亮的物件以及圖像，共同迸發出兼具故事性和豐富情感的記憶。露比試圖發掘萬物所產生的感官體驗，來應對我們世界的形勢，對於那些當今已經成為”自然”的人造材料，她不偏好、卻也不漠視其存在的價值。
A big ball of jelly is rolling through the landscape. As it rolls it consumes things in its path, building upon itself to change shape. It doesn’t judge or differentiate; it accumulates.
For Ariel Ruby, the Jellyball is an image of how varied events and elements have shaped the unique cultural landscape of Taiwan over time.
She accumulates objects similarly – liquid and solid, living and manufactured, new and discarded. Organic and synthetic materials are treated with the same regard and are not always distinguishable from one another.
This exhibition takes inspiration from a wide reaching view of storytelling, folk religion, ritual and tradition - as it collides and enmeshes with the contemporary world. The work questions once distinct polarities, do they even exist?
Using multimedia installation, this immersive and animated environment presents a collection of micro worlds that grow out of the darkness to seek light. Each world tells a story that may evoke similar emotions of sensuous experiences in “nature”, shining a light on an everyday magic that exists in this reality.
Ariel Maria Ruby Mather Palmese
Ariel Ruby is an Australian/Italian artist with deep connections to the places she has called home, and those that she can imagine. She makes lively, moving worlds filled with glittering items and images that explode with narrative and rich emotional memory. Ruby grapples with the state of our world by seeking to find sensuous experiences in all things, not favouring, yet not disregarding the man made materials that have become the “nature” of our time.
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