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Conceptual Series

Eva Brunner

Photographer

Eva Brunner

Perchance To Dream

With half a line from Hamlet’s soliloquy “to be or not to be”, I immerse myself in a world between fantasy and reality, between authenticity and staging. As if in a daydream, I set off with my partner Bernhard - and his trans identity Barbara - on a journey through constantly changing scenarios in urban spaces, natural worlds, and theatrical settings. Fleeting moments of everyday life alternate with theatrical stagings of transsexuality. Like in everyday life with my partner, there is no clearly defined separation between their identities. As a chronicle of the last few years, my particular focus is on the search for inner images. To this end, I do not realize precisely planned visual worlds in my stagings but remain open to the unexpected and provoking chance at best.

Eva Brunner

Swiss born Eva Brunner lives and works in Berlin, Germany. As a visual story-teller she delves in personal photography. In her works Eva Brunner depicts the various layers of reality and their underlying narrative structures – their disruptions and fragmentations. Eva studied Communications in Rome, Italy. She was a masterclass student with Professor Arno Fischer at the Ostkreuzschule Berlin, followed by workshops with Todd Weinstein, Anders Petersen, Sven Marquardt, Wolfgang Zurborn and photo book workshops with Tomasz Laczny. In 2021 Eva published her first photo book "No Escape from Paradise" with Edition Babev Berlin. Eva has shown her works in numerous Solo and Group Shows in Berlin, Budapest, Barcelona and in Switzerland.