With the title “Pets”, Ruth Gómez, poses, with her first single exhibition, her particular and recognizable artistic universe, with a contemporary language that joins video, music and digital drawing.

A surrealist jungle, as stage, and a big casting of characters, as main characters, string together in order to recreate a society that raises questions and looks for answers about the human being nature, as a “person” and as a “social animal”.

The name of the exhibition, after the artist, “refers to the most primitive nature of the human being, to his instict for surviving, to the relegation to the ethical principles in front of the “other”, to whom, howewer and over all, we are (because of emotional or affective reasons, or reasons that just are beyond our understanding) forced to need them. It's  in this feeling where the paradox  of our daily jungles- interiors and with the social environment- lives and that is what I try to explore throught a trip in which a person finds concepts such as “status”, “hierarchy”, “identity role”, “ability of adaptation to the environment” or “abuse of power”.

For Ruth Gómez, “that enormous jungle that the world is, is not only the addition of each of our personal jungles: the artist´s and the audience's one. That is the reason because of which the exhibition not only invites, but also persecutes, the visitor's reaction in the presence of a universe of characters who look for directly the audience's glance and wait worried, his answer.

The cinematographic art sign –framings, narrative language…– becomes obvious in the miscellaneous synopsis of influences that Ruth Gómez has as an artist. The dinamyc framings, the personal use of the color and the interior rhythm of an exhibition obviously subordinated to the sound track, show also another inspiration sources, such as publicity, comics and musical videos. We can not forget that Ruth Gómez, after having finished her studies of Fine Arts at university, worked in the past as a creative advertiser and as a graphic designer for television. Moreover, she created a musical video for “Fangoria” band, among another artistic projects.

Regarding the technique, her working method is based on the real image that, after a meticulous production project of thousand of drawings both hand-made and digital and a montage similar to a “collage”, finishes with the transfer to the world of computer animation. On the subject of her drawings, the gestation of the loan follows similar guidelines of production, although the artist looks for transfering information, views, complementary interpretation to those placed on her videos, to this medium.

All of these formal characteristics together make of the showing language in “Pets”, an artistic expression that can be put on the Third Millenium arriving and in the digital age, in the framework of an exhibition that, together with the research of answers about the man as an “animal always in evolution” (towards the past or the future), faced to the conflicts of the contemporary society.