Once upon a time Painting

Rebecca Brodskis was born in 1988. She spent most of her childhood travelling and living between France and Morocco. She studied painting at the ateliers des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris and at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London. Shortly thereafter, she worked in New York City as the assistant to the Norwegian artist, Lars Laumann. After some time in New York, Brodskis returned to Europe and chose Berlin as her new home base. Having always been attracted by theoretical studies, she is now completing a Masters degree in sociology on the themes of vulnerability and social crisis. Her paintings could be described as a journey through the oneiric, a dream state that is perpetually in-between. The images emerge from a variety of sources, sometimes inspired by a photograph or a memory. While the paintings contain figurative elements, details are reduced in order to allow a sense of blurriness to overcome the images. The characters are never set in a recognizable landscape, in order to cast aside the initial expectations of the viewer. Elements from the real, rational world are painted in a manner that reduces their tangibility. These artistic strategies allow the imagination to flow, liberating our ability for interpretation and inserting us into the very makeup of an in-between structure.