Ruah Edelstein
Artist
Series of work across years
Medium: Ink on paperRelease date: 2026
There are moments when language falls away, when articulation fails and you stand speechless before what is lived. It was in that terrain that this way of writing began.
Medium: Mixed media on canvasRelease date: 2023 - 2024
Reimagining Madonna and Child as an internal paradox: I am the Madonna, and I am the child. The one who holds and the one who needs holding are one and the same.
Medium: Oil on canvasRelease date: 2023
A reflection on the fragile threshold between presence and transition, the subtle movements through which lives intersect for a time and continue beyond the visible frame.
Medium: Paint-on-glass monoprintsRelease date: Dec 17, 2021
Although pain and death were not alien, despair and rebellion were. From now on, the soul could be joyful or sad, but it did not suffer from discord.
Medium: 3D sculptingRelease date: June 17, 2021
Fabricating light out of darkness when other methods became unavailable. Unstoppable, the medium of darkness is the brightest, healing to the heart.
Medium: Tempera, ink, gel, graphiteRelease date: April 24, 2019
I have the the luxury of calling things by their names. Norms are ever-changing and remain outside of me, while within, my efforts bear fruit.
Medium: Oil pastelsRelease date: April 22, 2019
Necessities outside of primary ones are acquired, like an acquired taste. Outside of sleeping and eating nothing is necessary, unless it is acquired.
Medium: Ink, film, transfer letteringRelease date: Feb 28, 2019
To remain with things as they are. To resist dilution. The rest recedes into fairytale—into the matrices of media that form the minds of those who sleep.
Medium: Cutout, carbon paper, black cardRelease date: Jan 30, 2019
I was walking on the edge of the roof. Then I made this card for myself and it became official: all things are now possible for me, everything is allowed.
Medium: Gouache, ink on paperRelease date: Oct 20, 2019
Marginal thinking: I am what I want. And I want to write, and that's how I am a writer. And while I'm a writer, I paint what I would be writing about, to block and unblock.
Medium: Ink on paperRelease date: Oct 30, 2018
And again, the whole tells the soul to overcome itself, to be reborn for yet another unknown service. A new step to a new motherland – I give it all for the renewal.
Medium: Manuscript, 56 pagesRelease date: Nov 24, 2018
The Stalin-era telephone is hanging on the wall and is silent. This is the best that a phone can do. Telephones are for silence.
Medium: Paper mache, gouache, inkRelease date: May 21, 2018
Memory encodes events of consequence. This series consists of long-term memory algorithms translated into a visual sensory experience.
Medium: Ink, gel, transfer letteringRelease date: April 12, 2018
Don't let yourself be hypnotized. Protect your thoughts. Know that to be in a majority is dangerous. If you find yourself in one, try to figure out what is wrong with you.
Medium: Pigment, ink, transfer letteringRelease date: Feb 4, 2018
A type of OCD: elements collected with an unknown use or minimal program. A poet of this kind, and these are the rhymes.
Medium: Manuscript, 36 pages Release date: Aug 30, 2018
Slowly waking up. I'm asking them, where is the pill for despair? And then I remembered, I AM, precisely, that pill, the pill for despair. This is my only purpose.
Medium: Graphite, charcoal, pigmentRelease date: Nov 30, 2018
From the portfolio of ideas one pays attention to, without assigning the smallest unit of meaning, a molecule from the infinite possibilities becomes my biology.
Medium: Pigment on wood cubesRelease date: Oct 24, 2016
I had a dream: There is a need to negotiate the meaning of words prior to holding a conversation. Only once the meaning is agreed upon, is a conversation possible.
Medium: Site-specific frescosRelease date: Aug 8, 2012
Logic can be an obstacle to new knowledge. Discoveries visit during long walks in a field or, as with this work, in an ordinary room.
Even the mundane surfaces can begin to open.
Medium: Tempera, animation framesRelease date: May 12, 2012
Animation frames from Maman et la Putain scene in Died 100 Times film: I'll survive and call you back. Helpless I wait. I am your child. You have long since returned. Yet, undone, I am still waiting.
Collection: oil on canvas, drawingsRelease date: 2001–2021
Now, for every feat of wisdom there will come an hour that cancels its meaning. Every vision inevitably fades in due time and gives way to new ones.