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.