Shared Fictions Eva Beresin

Eva Beresin (b.1955 in Budapest, HU) presents her first solo exhibition Shared Fictions with Ruttkowski;68 in Düsseldorf.

“Whereas reality has the disconcerting habit of confronting us with the unexpected for which we were not prepared.” – Hannah Arendt

Beresin’s paintings depict intimate scenes, each standing on its own yet mutually embedded into a dialogue with each other. There is something eerie about the prematurely aged babies and the curvaceous back of a woman in a room that seems to dissolve. Any kind of event always happens a multitude of times: in it´s occurrence, initial telling, recording, reconstruction and repetition. In Beresin’s work, this ambiguity of perspectives is marked by a witness -–often an animal– gazing directly at the spectator, as if complicit in the delicate scene before them. Is it a blessing, a crime or a mundane moment?

A large red curtain reveals a chaotic field of vision like a stage curtain suggesting the fictitiousness of historic coherence. The past, present and future colliding into a sense of an apocalyptic jest.

In her sculptures, Beresin picks up elements from her paintings, giving fragments of these Shared Fictions a physical presence and tangible existence.

 

Opening reception
06/09/24
6–8 PM

 

 

 

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