"Perhaps the time has come to stop wasting energy on [criticism, in print and in gossip] and to celebrate the winners and losers alike. Maybe Ruth Sacks understood this with her entry to this year's 'Kebbles'. In a gesture far from any male energy I know of, she has made three series of tiny trophies engraved with 'Better Luck Next Year'; 'Don't Take it Personally' and 'I Like Yours Best'. One will go to each of the 183 non-winners on October."

Andrew Lamprecht, ArtThrob, October 2004

Sacks' current body of work is a series of interventions and collaborations in the public arena. Her entry for the 2004 Brett Kebble Awards marked the start of her site specific gallery interventions. Following this, she made the gallery staff of the Outlet in Pretoria fill a truck with furniture from her aunt's lounge and furnish the exhibition space (A Winner in Hawaii II, 2004). She also encouraged the public to clean up after themselves at Negotiate (Johannesburg Art Gallery, 2004).

Her work tends to reconstitute bits of everyday life to create unsettling, idiosyncratic situations. In doing so, she investigates the psychological spaces in between urban street life and designated art environments. Current projects include a series of obese, taxidermised pigeons and glitter print souvenir t-shirts of obscure small towns around South Africa. On Human Right's Day, March 21 (2005), she paid a pilot to write the words 'Don't panic' in the sky over the Cape Town city bowl. The 'don't' blew away long before the 'panic' did.

All of these projects make up part of Sacks' MFA work, which she is completing at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.