Work - Cycle - Body - covers the first ten years of Barbis Ruder's artistic work. The publication bundles the cross-media works and thus illustrates the complexity of her work through eleven work cycles. The artist's source material is her body, which she repeatedly places anew in the eld of tension between emancipation and capitalism.

The introduction and texts by Madeleine Frey describe the individual works and place them in their overall context. Accompanying this, the philosopher Lona Gaikis points out in her essay the connection between subject and economy on the basis of Barbis Ruder's work. In his artistic and at the same time subjective essay, the artist Peter Kozek conveys the genesis of the work.