Mauren Brodbeck (1974, lives and work in Geneva)
Mauren Brodbeck works mainly with the photographic and cinematic medium addressing issues such as identity, seclusion and power. She investigates the ephemeral and stillness in such subjects as space, topology and perception, often depicting the ordinary and the unspectacular. Mauren Brodbeck?s concern is tracing the individual and personal history in the seemingly banal, and wresting anonymous places from their recording and surveillance grids. From the seemingly unspecified nothingness arise (partially found, and partially inserted afterwards) massive bodies, or actually monochrome surfaces which optically metamorphose through the photographically detailed periphery into monumental sculptures. Behind the urban abyss, an unexpected vitality can unfold through more careful contemplation, a Genius loci always standing, a sensual secret. Maureen Brodbeck registers this secret to memory and metamorphoses it into a visual history about the invention of space and time. (lumas.com)
