The artwork depicts a minimalist composition featuring a silver analog watch placed on a pale green ribbon or string against a plain white background. The simplistic design emphasizes the watch's form and the contrast between the metallic timepiece and the soft, organic textile element. The artist seems to explore the concept of time and its transient nature, with the watch's placement on the delicate, curving string suggesting a sense of fragility and impermanence. The overall style conveys a meditative, introspective mood, inviting the viewer to contemplate the relationship between time, materiality, and the human experience. ...
Through a multidisciplinary practice of sculpture, installation, and sound, Ruoru Mou examines labor, migration, and material culture. She reconfigures industrial forms and by-products to illuminate the complex networks and power structures embedded in production and material flows. Drawing inspiration from the Chinese diaspora communities of Florence, Italy, where she grew up, Mou uses materials such as leather, wood, glass, and ceramics to investigate the relationships between objects, labor, and power. Her work emphasizes traces of displaced labor and the processes behind material production. Central to her practice is the idea of objects as vessels that carry sound, memory, and experience. Boats, clay, and other forms act as metaphors for preserving and transmitting stories and labor. Immersive installations highlight how materials—from leather offcuts to tools—encapsulate histories of migration, labor, and industry. Mou’s work challenges conventional notions of value and production, creating poetic, critical reflections on displacement, labor, and the unseen human forces that shape both objects and environments. ...
The Approach is co-directed by Jake Miller and Emma Robertson. Located in Bethnal Green above The Approach Tavern, for over twenty years it has operated an internationally recognised programme from its East London base. The gallery is known for discovering artists and establishing their careers as well as making inter-generational curated group shows a strong focus. The list of represented artists includes the Estates of important overlooked female artists Heidi Bucher and Maria Pinińska Bereś, as well as seminal British collage artist John Stezaker, together with established and emerging artists including Magali Reus, Peter Davies, Lisa Oppenheim, Sandra Mujinga, Pam Evelyn, Sara Cwynar, Sam Windett and Caitlin Keogh. Over the years the gallery has operated parallel programmes in additional gallery spaces in London’s West End (The Approach W1) and in Shoreditch (The Reliance). The gallery is currently based solely in its original East End location and continues to expand its programme, showcasing its represented artists in the main gallery space, and both represented and non-represented artists in The Annexe, a smaller, more experimental space at the back of the building. ...
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