El Templo Ruderal [The Ruderal Temple] 2023(2023)
Installation
Woodblock print on fabric, sound, video. Cotton fabric, red wool, digital archive
Specific site dimensions
BilbaoArte Collection
Registration No.: 2023.573.1
El templo Ruderal is an installation produced during Anat Moss’s residency at BilbaoArte in 2023, conceived around the ongoing concept with which the Rudera Project works: Electro-pagan Rituals. This work process consists of specific and collective practices of space-time, which explore speculative spirituality that seeks to free the mind from the values of capitalist society based on patriarchal religions. For this specific project, the artist draws on the essence of the temple: a space as an energy generator that hosts community rituals, raises the spirit, facilitates active listening and meditation. During the residency, the artist explored ruderal medicinal plants and the feminine spirituality of Mother Earth, as a means of collective and individual healing and deliverance. The temple gradually took shape by weaving red yarns, creating fabrics using screen printing and painting, working with voice and sound, video and light. The first collective ritual took place on the summer solstice, on 21 June 2023, with a group of women celebrating together. That was followed by the BilbaoArte Open Doors from 26 to 30 June.
Anat Moss (Rudera Project) Jerusalem (1990). She currently lives in Bilbao. Master’s Degree in Performance and Technology Art from the UPV/EHU (Bilbao, 2022) and a Degree in Fine Arts in Animation from Bezalel Academy (Jerusalem, 2018). Her art involves moving images and sound art, as she creates installations, live audiovisual performances and experimental animations. Her work is deeply rooted in feminist, environmental and spirituality themes.