"My work is the constant attempt to translate the images in my head. The banal, everyday or fleetingly-perceived have the same status as phantasias or images from art history. I am impatient and want to make the pictures in my head visible in my own visual language as quickly as possible, so the pictures are never finished, but rather remain in a continuous process."
— Eva Beresin
Colorful splendor, uncanny subject matter, corporeally and painterly Baroque - Beresin's paintings push the limits of the viewer's perception and understanding of dissonance to create bacchanalian works that must be returned to time, and time again. Through the use of inimitable painterly techniques, Beresin astounds with remarkable depictions of mythical animals and creatures, fantastical bodies and figures, settings and spaces that defy time and ordinary spatial arrangements and anchors them all through a vibrance and vivacity of color so unique and electrifyingly magnetic. Remolding history, and going against the grain of typical representations, Beresin lurs the viewer in through discernable depictions of objects and bodies, only to turn them on their heads and present worlds and representations entirely of her own vision and making. Haunting yet comical, sincere yet fanciful, ghastly yet delightful, the absurdity of the world in which we live and its myriad of contradictions and contrasts unfold in each of Beresin's works. They push and pull the viewer in, utilizing various mediums, and tell us of our past, and present - they reckon with us, and bring us closer to ourselves, and parts of us we may have never known before.
Eva Beresin was born in Budapest, Hungary and attended the Budapest School of Fine Art. She has had solo exhibitions at the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Althius Hofland, Amsterdam, Charim Gallery, Vienna, Spazio Amanita, New York and M+B, Los Angeles. Beresin lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
