Works
Valeriane
SEMUEL BREUER
2025
Digital photograph taken with an analogue lens
I always feel that life is too easy, as if everything I've ever wanted were just an illusion. For a brief moment, everything shines so sweetly, as if all my desires were part of a magical game - and then, in the next instant, when I finally reach them, all that remains is emptiness. As if it were nothing more than a passing wind.
I long to feel, to connect - but when I finally experience what I've been yearning for, I suddenly feel the need to pull away. It's as if my body and my soul want to live separately, as if I wanted both intimacy and freedom at the same time, but couldn't figure out how to hold on to both.
To me, these photographs represent a desired self - a version of me I've never dared to become. It's as if I were seeing fragments of my own illusion reflected back at me. These images are not just moments captured in time; they mirror a world I've always found fascinating, yet also feared.
That's what draws me - the edge, the borderline where strength, aggression, pain, and freedom meet. The desire to be different, not like the others, not stuck in the gray everyday.The feeling that I could touch everything, and yet it all remains out of reach — as if I belonged to another reality.
But then comes the question: if I surrender myself to this world, what will be left of me?"
Work presented as part of the “Human Inside” exhibition at Galerie Artverse, Paris, 2025.
Greg
SEMUEL BREUER
2025
Digital photograph taken with an analogue lens
“I always feel that life is too easy, as if everything I've ever wanted were just an illusion. For a brief moment, everything shines so sweetly, as if all my desires were part of a magical game - and then, in the next instant, when I finally reach them, all that remains is emptiness. As if it were nothing more than a passing wind.
long to feel, to connect - but when I finally experience what I've been yearning for, I suddenly feel the need to pull away. It's as if my body and my soul want to live separately, as if I wanted both intimacy and freedom at the same time, but couldn't figure out how to hold on to both.
To me, these photographs represent a desired self - a version of me I've never dared to become. It's as if I were seeing fragments of my own illusion reflected back at me. These images are not just moments captured in time; they mirror a world I've always found fascinating, yet also feared.
That's what draws me - the edge, the borderline where strength, aggression, pain, and freedom meet. The desire to be different, not like the others, not stuck in the gray everyday.The feeling that I could touch everything, and yet it all remains out of reach - as if I belonged to another reality.
But then comes the question: if I surrender myself to this world, what will be left of me?"
Work presented as part of the “Human Inside” exhibition at Galerie Artverse, Paris, 2025.