Leonore Brunner, weemoed, 2024

Leonore Brunner explores images through sound, playing with notions of texture, resonance, fragments, harmony, and rhythm. She creates sensory experiences without predefined images, inviting listeners to become actors in their own perception. Through live sound performances, she captures and transforms organic sounds from nature in various locations and from her own voice. She then alters them until they are unrecognizable. Her work, at the crossroads of the visual and the auditory, invites us to redefine our perception of the world around us and questions the boundary between the visible and the invisible.

Her performance is entitled weemoed. This is a Dutch term that symbolizes a gentle melancholy, a torment, without necessarily being linked to a form of sadness.

Leonore Brunner holds a Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD, 2019) and a Master's degree in Museology from the University of Neuchâtel (2024).

A pianist since the age of 8, her artistic practice explores the role of sound in the construction of visual space. Whether working alone or in collaboration, her work questions the notions of texture, harmony, repetition, and noise, while examining their influence on the perception of space and time. She presented her work at the Espace Voltaire in Paris in 2021, at the Fête de la Musique in Geneva and at the Festival de Sévelin in Lausanne in 2023, as well as at the 1815 event at Néo-Martine and at the Espace WunderKammer in Lausanne in 2024.

Since 2023, she has been collaborating with Swiss artist Julie Monot on performances presented at venues including Arsenic in Lausanne, the Klöntal Triennale in Glarus, and the Istituto Svizzero in Palermo.