Ruttkowski;68

Eva Beresin

Info: Eva Beresin (b. 1955) 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) The paintings display intimate scenes, each standing for themselves yet mutually embeddedinto a dialogue. Events always happen a multitude of times: in their occurrence, their initial telling, their recording, and reconstruction. In Beresin’s work, this ambivalence of perspectives is often marked by a witness. These, often animals, tend to look directly at the spectator, like an accomplice to a delicate site – is it a blessing, a crime or a mundane scene? There is something eerie about the children who look like aged men, the curvaceous back of a woman in a room that seems to dissolve. A largered curtain framing centuries, a field of vision like a stage curtain or window, reminding us of the simultaneity of time. The past, present and future colliding into a sense of apocalyptic togetherness. In her sculptures, Beresin picks up elements from her paintings, giving fragments of these Shared Fictions a physical presence and tangible existence.