Bianca Brunner

“Bianca Brunner’s enigmatically simple photographic compositions reflect on the power of sudden, momentary absorption to arrest and change our experience of daily life—characters and sets embodying a hypnotic aesthetic akin to that which may be found in, say, a painting of a mostly empty interior by Wilhelm Hammershoi, or in the subversive sense of memory and possession in a surrealist film. The young Swiss photographer’s contemplative images of individuals looking as anonymous and abandoned as the interior and exterior environments in which they are framed are remarkable for their uncanny, almost mystically Spartan demeanor.”