As an American artist with a long history in Berlin
and London, Laura Bruce has been oscillating between cultural hierarchies for quite sometime. Not concerned with issues about high or low and the serious or entertaining - or however these handed-down dualities should be called - she stumbles upon the stuff of the everyday and works with it. The medium found to grasp a particular experience is less important than the intensity of a spurring moment that tips the expected and familiar into another dimension. Precipitating this moment again and again is one of the indispensible conditions of her work, and also means that Laura Bruce must continually counter reality's lack of perception - a reality to which she belongs - and counter it with a wealth of reflection that transcends it. In other words, the thin layer of the banal is exactly and precisely perforated by poetic thought, revealing a hidden abundance of narrative, drama and irony.

Harald Kunde (Ludwigsforum, Aachen, Germany), from
"The Real Soap Opera" in the catalog "no vacancies",
Kunsthaus Dresden, Feb. 2002

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