Bruria Finkel’s Complete Aleph Series is inspired by and named after the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet aleph. Art critic Peter Frank quotes, “Bruria’s art is not commentary on the Kabbalah, but is a reconfiguration of its logic, a putting-to-work of Kabbalistic theory—not quite in the same way as, say, alchemical efforts to turn lead into gold, but definitely a means of giving form to verbal and numerical expression, form that such expression had not been given before. Form is informed by information, detail follows on detail, and abstract knowledge takes circular shape, the same shape assumed by galaxies and drops in a pond”.

Finkel’s installation is a creation of a sacred space with its central ritual piece, The Divine Chariot Series, four eight-foot-tall bronzes, inspired by the writings of Avraham Abulafua a kabbalist mystic, poet, Rabbi, who lived in 13th century, Spain (whose writings Finkel has translated since the 1960s). The exhibition also consists of large-scale paintings, originally created in 1991-93 for the Stadtmuseum in Düsseldorf, Germany, handmade books, meditation pieces, and a temporary installation combining elements of earlier (1980) and more recent work.