Suzan Noesen
08 Jan - 23 Feb 2011
SUZAN NOESEN
8 Januari - 22 Fbruari 2011
The title of the exhibition 'more information to gather at the opening', refers to a lack of information which may be collected somewhere else. It shows quite well the artist's attitude of Suzan Noesen. To gather information for getting details as much as possible is in her opinion a prerequisite for developing a clearer view of her outer world. Hence her searching and defining of spaces, in both her exhibitions and performances. She gropes the borders and therefore the possibilities of both architectural and mental spaces.
In the exhibition 'more information to gather at the opening' a log split by an axe is placed in each corner of the gallery space, with one log in the middle of the room. During the opening a new performance 'Entschluss' (2011) was presented by a young woman with a pair of juggler's balls suggested with up and down movements of her hand that she wanted to throw the balls. In fact she collapsed in slow motion and stretched her body out lying on the floor, while dropping the balls. Standing up right gradually she repeated the act. During the performance of two hours the floor of the space was bodily touched.
The wax and pencil drawings are about skin and layers; peeled off, scratched, rolled up. In a wall sculpture a ball of pure wool refers to the skin of a sheep and its natural warmth. It is a protecting coat similar to the sheets of paper and the peeled off bark of the birch logs in the exhibition.
Suzan Noesen is in search of data that brings her to a better knowledge of phenomena she is interested in, i.e. impulses that come towards her and have relations to human positions and objects that surround her and her works.
Suzan Noesen studied at the Royal Academy in The Hague. Since December 2010 the artist lives and works in Berlin.
8 Januari - 22 Fbruari 2011
The title of the exhibition 'more information to gather at the opening', refers to a lack of information which may be collected somewhere else. It shows quite well the artist's attitude of Suzan Noesen. To gather information for getting details as much as possible is in her opinion a prerequisite for developing a clearer view of her outer world. Hence her searching and defining of spaces, in both her exhibitions and performances. She gropes the borders and therefore the possibilities of both architectural and mental spaces.
In the exhibition 'more information to gather at the opening' a log split by an axe is placed in each corner of the gallery space, with one log in the middle of the room. During the opening a new performance 'Entschluss' (2011) was presented by a young woman with a pair of juggler's balls suggested with up and down movements of her hand that she wanted to throw the balls. In fact she collapsed in slow motion and stretched her body out lying on the floor, while dropping the balls. Standing up right gradually she repeated the act. During the performance of two hours the floor of the space was bodily touched.
The wax and pencil drawings are about skin and layers; peeled off, scratched, rolled up. In a wall sculpture a ball of pure wool refers to the skin of a sheep and its natural warmth. It is a protecting coat similar to the sheets of paper and the peeled off bark of the birch logs in the exhibition.
Suzan Noesen is in search of data that brings her to a better knowledge of phenomena she is interested in, i.e. impulses that come towards her and have relations to human positions and objects that surround her and her works.
Suzan Noesen studied at the Royal Academy in The Hague. Since December 2010 the artist lives and works in Berlin.