Ruth Marbun (b. 1985) is a visual artist based in Jakarta, Indonesia. She started her career in fashion before shifting into visual arts. Ruth is deeply interested in the connectivity between human beings and also their surrounding environments—their thriving capability for adaptation and survival. She embraces imperfection as fabrication of life, as seen and reflected in textures and deconstruction of figures in her paintings, textiles, drawings, animations and installations. Her works have been featured in Jakarta, Jogjakarta, Tokyo, Singapore, and Australia.
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