Text excerpt from 'Analogue Analogies' by Hans Theys, Montagne de Miel, 22 June 2025

In this new installation, entitled Shine!, a photograph is projected on a self woven white fabric. The photograph shows two people: a man lying on a bed and an older woman stooping over him. The self woven fabric is 70 cm wide and five metres long. It is woven with cotton and Hungarian hemp on a warp consisting of 700 threads. It is weighed down with hand-made clay shapes made of rusty red clay, collected, dried, sieved, rewatered and formed in Budapest. Again, the photograph seems to become immaterial, transparent even, because you can look at it from both sides of the projection screen.

The installation also contains hanging fabrics bathed in red clay from Budapest and soaked in linseed oil (2,5 x 1,5 metres) and five stools made of ash wood from the Montafon region in Austria. They were designed by Breuer’s uncle Bernhard Breuer and turned by Juergen Tschofen on behalf of Breuer.

In my opinion, Breuer’s consequent search for an analogue, concrete approach to photography and installation speaks of a world to come; a world rooted in traditions and crafts that have survived our superficial quest for economoic growth, which has left most people in an unhinged state of deprivation, shallowness, spiritual emptiness and loneliness. I hope many young people will follow her example and reshape a world of hope, taste, tactile pleasure, beauty and personal fulfillment.