Eva Vuillemin is showing her first solo exhibition at message salon. The young artist stages herself in photographs and video works based on personal experiences, emotional states and relationships.
In the video series “Me & My Mother”, the artist shows herself with her mother. Mother and daughter sit opposite to one another. They spit at each other (Spit, 2012) or feed each other (Spaghetti, 2012). Mother and daughter show closeness and intimacy, but the situation soon turns into a serious game about power, competition and clinging, violent love. In its aggressive inevitability, the situation develops an increasingly comic component.
The photo series “Olimpia”, which was created especially for the exhibition at message salon, shows silhouettes of young women standing at the window, looking out into a melancholy Berlin landscape of Plattenbau buildings. Eva Vuillemin’s analogue photography is created in the laboratory; the photograph is shaped and manipulated using stencils and exposure. The subject of the secret observer, who looks outwards from an intimate space, draws parallels to the human body as the dwelling place of the soul and the spirit. The observation of the inside and outside, the tantalising suggestion of intimate desires and longings, becomes a voyeuristic view of something very private.
Eva Vuillemin is currently studying art at the Berlin University of the Arts. Last year, in August 2011, Eva Vuillemin showed a joint photographic work with her mother, the artist and photographer Ruth Erdt, in the exhibition “Cyanotypes” at message salon.