Leila Edelstein

I return to the same sites and people compulsively. Over and over, the work revisits and recalls, driven by a curiosity with the mechanisms of memory, connection and genetics. This repetition is not an attempt to preserve, rather to agitate and reveal the ways memory slips, fractures, and re-forms. In a material sense my work is fragile and impermanent. Cutting, doubling, piecing, glueing, taping and weaving the image, there is significance in the impossibility of my endeavours – in their unsayability and laborious physicality. Personal, collective and inherited trauma settles in the body and the image.