Eva Brunner | NO ESCAPE FROM PARADISE
Two years ago, my barely opened exhibition NO ESCAPE FROM PARADISE at Haze Gallery Berlin had to be closed again because lockdown was announced. After the book publication and on the occasion of the upcoming NFT launch on OpenSea, a large part of the works is now shown at Babev Versum.
"In the pictures of Eva Brunner, the garden of Eden presents itself as a labyrinthine place, a hallucination between naturalness and artificiality, separated from the earthly but yet grounded again in the human body. Can we escape from this eternal happiness? Or are we captivated in the permanent search for happiness? Dazzled by beauty of frequently mystical apparition, we find ourselves immersed in a world which no longer follows any logic of space and time. In a permanent alternation of perspectives and moods of light, photographs of paradisiacal landscapes or enigmatic body presentations are merging with traces of civilisation to form a surreal stream of imagery. By subtle balancing the colours and by compression of the image spaces, the dramatic composition of the sequences unfolds a visual pull which the viewer can hardly elude. Although these themes are having a high aesthetic impact, there is never the danger of walking into the trap of a purely idyllic idealisation of contemplating nature. This is evoked by the suspenseful synergy of the pictures with their contrasting visions of the natural."
Text (excerpt) by Wolfgang Zurborn
www.evabrunner.net
Performances by Bernhard Kempen
Sounddesign by Bernhard Kempen
www.bernhard-kempen.de
The photo book NO ESCAPE FROM PARADISE is available @ www.editionbabev.com
Photo book design by Matteo Peterlini @ Pausenraum.org
"In the pictures of Eva Brunner, the garden of Eden presents itself as a labyrinthine place, a hallucination between naturalness and artificiality, separated from the earthly but yet grounded again in the human body. Can we escape from this eternal happiness? Or are we captivated in the permanent search for happiness? Dazzled by beauty of frequently mystical apparition, we find ourselves immersed in a world which no longer follows any logic of space and time. In a permanent alternation of perspectives and moods of light, photographs of paradisiacal landscapes or enigmatic body presentations are merging with traces of civilisation to form a surreal stream of imagery. By subtle balancing the colours and by compression of the image spaces, the dramatic composition of the sequences unfolds a visual pull which the viewer can hardly elude. Although these themes are having a high aesthetic impact, there is never the danger of walking into the trap of a purely idyllic idealisation of contemplating nature. This is evoked by the suspenseful synergy of the pictures with their contrasting visions of the natural."
Text (excerpt) by Wolfgang Zurborn
www.evabrunner.net
Performances by Bernhard Kempen
Sounddesign by Bernhard Kempen
www.bernhard-kempen.de
The photo book NO ESCAPE FROM PARADISE is available @ www.editionbabev.com
Photo book design by Matteo Peterlini @ Pausenraum.org