Yasna Kohlbrenner
Each work I paint serves to repair a piece of life
Nuruu
Nuruu - Light
UnYk 212
160 × 130 cm
December 2021
Acrylic; handmade memory matter; noble and chameleon pigments; 1 zircon embedded
Within a surface of deep greens and earthy browns, light finds its way through.
It does not appear all at once — it searches, it insists, it fractures the darkness until it emerges.
The zircon, embedded in the material, captures this fragile yet irreversible breakthrough.
NURU is the movement of the invisible toward light.
Those who are not yet seen, but who keep moving forward, carried by a silent strength.
Mission
This work carries the presence of those who have long been kept in the shadows — survivors of violence, children abandoned to the streets, lives pushed to the edges of visibility.
Through each fissure, each layer of matter, a passage is opened — not only to be seen, but to exist differently.
The light in NURU is not decorative. It is a force of emergence.
It speaks of resilience that does not announce itself, of dignity that persists even when everything has been taken away.
It is the quiet insistence of life refusing to disappear.
By integrating stones shaped by the hands of survivors, this work becomes a space of transmission.
It holds their gestures, their stories, their transformation — from invisibility to presence.
NURU is not only a painting.
It is a commitment: to reveal, to restore, and to carry forward those who are still fighting to be seen.
