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A​ï​da Ruilova: The Singles 1999 - Now

by Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland

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Megan Lykins Reich on Aïda Ruilova's work 02:42

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Aida Ruilova, a New York-based video artist, presented a nine-year survey of her single channel video work in a choreographed installation for her first solo museum exhibitions. Largely characterized by dark, confined interiors and lone protagonists suspended in chronic states of psychic distress, Ruilova’s videos reveal an attention to structures of music, performance, and film. While she draws from both the montage aesthetic of early vanguard cinema and horror-film suspense, discrete and visceral vocals reinforce both the physicality of her editing style, as well as the isolation, claustrophobia, and anxiety that identify her work. Amplifying the tension between sound and image, Ruilova collaged together truncated images against feverish screeches and moans, each shot doubling and repeating as the physical and psychic tension mounts. These incisive and extreme slices of action, intensified by Ruilova’s serialized technique, offered a contained, cyclical composition of morbid possession and private madness. Combining classical cinematic devices with a low-tech sensibility, quick cuts and a distinctively rhythmic an jarring soundtrack, Ruilova created works that exist in the space between sound and image. This exhibition was co-organized by the Aspen Art Museum and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Support for the exhibition catalogue was generously provided by Toby Devan Lewis, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, and Salon 94, New York. General support for the Contemporary’s exhibitions program was generously provided by the Whitaker Foundation; the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; William E. Weiss Foundation; Regional Arts Commission; Missouri Arts Council, a state agency; Arts and Education Council; Nancy Reynolds and Dwyer Brown; and members of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. General support for the exhibition at MOCA Cleveland was generously provided by Donley’s, Hahn Loeser, and Oswald Companies.

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released June 4, 2010

Aida Ruilova, "life like", 2006, Single-channel video installation with sound (5 minutes, 19 seconds). Image courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York.

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