Review – No!r, “Hope Less Belief”

Posted by Jason Greendyk on February 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

On February 16, 2011, our very own Nicole Helen Brunner featured artwork in No!r’s one-night showing of “Hope Less Belief” at the Perrelin Film Studio in New York City.  Read on for a rendering of this wonderful experience of Brunner’s work:

Open doors to the gut.  The raw film of sexuality.  La petite mort.  To weave in and out of groping.  Nietzschean lust and hollow abysses of awkward silence.  To sing the flickering heart.

February 16, 2011.  No!r, Hope Less Belief, Perrelin Film Studio, Manhattan.  The passive beauties of drawings and paintings that are Nicole Helen Brunner’s artworks offer us these sufferings, amidst others.  And how cynically sublime that many an eye lapses, dwells on makeshift minimalist fabrications.  Empty space divided with a brush of hope covering a window.  Sometimes there are no words to be spoken in the desert.  The violet skies depressing own density.  Can feel it coming back?  The white pain?  Tumbling weeds rescinding in the blue, enveloping blue consuming the hollow womb miscarried of its passions?

Dive dear marks.  Save the explanations.  Stand beneath hope, shuddering in the capture of soul, brushing off the drawings of darker imaginings.  Pacing the eerie office of truth where eyes peer out and above stigmata twisted symmetries.  Walk into love so forgotten of oneself can hardly muster the bitterness to look back and feign paint judgment.  Would leave it all behind and sail fragile beneath new skies, quite bereft of former selves and all their insecurely fastened weight.  To love we must present give ourselves over of our sufferings, wrapped like warm gifts in shy smiles and gut instinct interactions.  Coy, we must give our brittle dust and be nothing. 

Brunner beckons us to do so without shame.  And so we come out our own warmth, quite naked in the cold, and needing other arms. 

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