Leonie Brandner

I work with expansive installations, text, song and performance to explore uncertainties and the fleeting feeling of being part of an unstable system. I am interested in belonging, how things belong to things, how I belong, how we belong, how things belong to situations, especially those that don't seem to make sense.​

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To find my own place in a web of tangled realities, I interweave personal stories with ecological concerns and long-forgotten mythologies to open up spaces that exist on a level beyond mere logic. The stories I tell with my work jump from loss to desire, from the temporary to the already long gone. My works are vessels for non-linear storytelling, vessels in which complexity is not avoided but used as a tool to give form to a fleeting order without being frozen in resolution or absolution.

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I cherish the fragile, the delicate and tenderness as the vitality and determination of my practice.  It is a tenderness that can be found in the barely tangible structures and textures of my work - textures as stories, textures as shadows of objects and echoes of sounds, textures as glimmers of hope, as something that resonates in the hollow of the mouth and vibrates under the tips of fingers. And it is them, textures, that bring together the various aspects of my work together in kaleidoscopic worlds on the edge of evaporation.