Combining classical cinematic devices with a distinctively jarring, low-tech sensibility, New York-based artist Aida Ruilova creates dark, narrative video work. Ruilova is one of a young generation of artists who employ media in innovative ways with a do-it-yourself aesthetic, often drawing upon contextslike cinema, music, and popular culturethat exist outside the artworld. Her short video loops often feature characters performing cryptic and physically uncomfortable actions, revealing her fascination with the conjunction of horror movie aesthetics and the sublime. Ruilova's works have a strong formal and associative relationship to music. Ruilova, a classically trained musician, is a member of the experimental music group Alva. Her videos feature visceral experiences of discrete soundsamong them evocative phrases muttered repetitively, heavy breathing, scrunching guitar strings, and vinyl LPs being scraped across cementthat reinforce both the physicality of her editing and the...

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