Throughout his research-driven practice, Alan Ruiz critically examines built environments—industrial and institutional spaces’ physical infrastructures and the systems that shape them—drawing attention to their social, political, and psychological dimensions.

For his exhibition at Dia Bridgehampton, Ruiz presents an architecturally scaled sculptural intervention alongside other new works and an essay to consider the creation and maintenance of the site in the context of local working conditions as well as labor’s broader histories in the United States.

Engaging with daylight as a concept, a material, a resource, and a political force, the works in De sol a sol point to the layered sociopolitical conditions of the East End of Long Island, from sites of leisure to scenes of the working day, where sunlight’s broad spectrum reveals an array of social distinctions.