Ariel RuvinskyBorn in United States. Lives in: London
Goldsmiths
The core ethos of my artistic practice revolves around fusing the process of making into a kind of ascetic practice. Through the experimentation of textiles, my work confronts the viewer with a dissonance between textural formalism and the subject matter on display. Influenced by the connection between the condition of the body and spiritual wellness, the discourse informing my practices focuses heavily on bearing pain in equal measure to patience as a way to understanding pleasure. In an ontological sense, this concept refers to the physical suffering of the body and the eventual transmutation of pain into ecstasy. In essence, each piece of work behaves as a portal acting on subconscious associations between a sort of haptic phenomenology and the combined symbolism of image, shape, and color. As a defining feature of my work, a complicated alchemy is utilized to give texture to the metaphysical.
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Work of art I would like to makeThe work I would like to make should I be chosen for the New Sensations Prize would involve investigating the relationship between industrial processes both manual and technical, and the way in which theological practices are engineered. In short, by reflecting on the ways physical labor can be equated to working towards a kind of sanctity, I wish to explore how manufacturing and multiplicity have via the virtue of industry has been in the past changed from doing “the work of the Lord” to the contemporary irrational magic of deus ex machina. Specifically, through archival research, photography, installation, and using industrial-grade processes to fabricate textiles, I want to highlight the connections between the factory and the monastery and the kind of social and moral fabric that is produced. By researching the relationship between the space of both material and spiritual institutions, I feel that the work that would be created would not only serve as a politically charged critique of how we relate to institutions, but more importantly would focus on the way spiritual meditation has been secularized into a weird sort of machinic meditation where the act of making still in some way mimics that of consecration.
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My Artworks (6)
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