Solo exhibition at Espacio Mados, Madrid, Spain
26 October - 6 November 2026
Eva Berler looks at the seemingly trivial, the unseen or that which is motionless and creates a handmade Polaroid lift image from a digital one. In an era where we are increasingly moving away from the handmade and turning towards the digital, Eva Berler chooses to return from the digital to the handmade. From the immateriality of the digital, to the tangible world of the analogue reality.
When she photographs statues, their stillness comes to a new dimension of existence. When she photographs nature, its living presence transcends into an esoteric quest printed on paper.
Her pictures depict the endless transformations of the state of Being – or not being. Sometimes we exist in motion, other times in a limbo state and less frequently we pause and calmly observe life. This is what the works in this exhibition attain: they mindfully pause and eventually lift our Existence.
But perhaps the greatest meaning is found here in the focus on the subtle, on that hidden divine, the poetic that exists around us daily – usually unnoticed.
In the spaces around us, there is ultimately the gaze of the photographer, the gaze of the viewer, and the gaze of the images themselves...
Joanna Vasdeki, Curator