EVELYN VONESCH
Evelyn Vonesch *1989 is a Swiss artist working in Bern. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Art and Design in Lausanne (ECAL) and is currently in the Master's program Contemporary Arts Practice at Bern University of the Arts (HKB) and as an exchange student at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Die Angewandte).
Vonesch works with sculptures, video and sound installations and text to explore the unstable and porous frontiers between the living and the inanimate. She is particularly interested in the similarities between the human and the artificial and how they reflect a magical vision of the border between material reality and imagined reality. Based on research and personal observation of common everyday experience and the manifestation of culture, her practice tries to get to the core of human emotions.
Artist Statement
Throughout history and in most societies, humans have projected their image onto the puppet. This relation of the human and the puppet exceeds imitation or illusion, it’s a tool to explore identity and culture. The video work present Pupae, becoming thing, 2024 follows the idea that an exchange between human, inanimate and nature creates a unity and a way to retreat from any human belief in being the center of the world. It reveals fixed forms of peculiar human emotions, the power of the fragile rather than the strong, the uncanny order that lays beyond mankind’s grasp, and growth through a full life cycle: complete metamorphosis. A work somewhere between stop and motion.