Ruth Sacks – The Remaindering and other Artist Books

South African book artist and academic, Ruth Sacks, will be talking about her practice of producing artist books alongside formal research. She will discuss her artwork The Remaindering (2022) in relation to her recent academic monograph Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence (Michigan University Press, 2023). Sacks will also briefly introduce Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Seas (2013) in terms of her interest in decolonising design and rethinking representations of the natural world. She is Associate Professor in the Visual Art Department of the University of Johannesburg and completed a PhD at the Wits Institute For Social and Economic Research in 2017. https://ruthsacks.net/