+ About the work

Ledoux's Donkey is from Rut Blees Luxemburg's series The dark intestine of Nicolas Ledoux.

The series is a sideways approach towards the French revolutionary architect’s oeuvre. Revolving around the Saline Royale, his hybrid factory - part panopticon, part anticipated ruin - Rut Blees Luxemburg exhibits nocturnal chimera of the imperfect Utopia.

"In Arc-et-Senans lies the gates to the underworld, a semicircular fragment of a parallel reality, an alchemical symbol, a tinderbox of revolution, a pastoral factory, a time crystal, or a prescient example of an artist defining an aesthetics of work." Dennis Goodwin.

+ About the artist

Rut Blees Luxemburg is renowned for her photographic work which deals with the representation of the city, and the phenomenon of the luminous. Her work has been shown in landmark exhibitions such as Elles at Centre Pompidou curated by Camille Morineau and A Handful of Dust curated by David Campany. Solo exhibitions include Phantom at Tate Liverpool and London Dust at the Museum of London. Her large-scale public work Silver Forest - a photographic urban landscape in cast concrete - is part of the façade of Westminster City Hall in London.

Blees Luxemburg’s photographs are held in many public and private collections including Tate London, V&A Museum, London, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia. She is a reader in urban aesthetics at the Royal College of Art and created the iconic cover for The Streets’ Original Pirate Material.