Susan Buttner
Susan Buttner is a Visual Artist based in Dublin. Within her practice, she attempts to unpack the delicate evaluation of power relations, revealing tensions and forces by combining static elements, while highlighting the borderless, transgressive aspect of institutional critique. Her conceptual interests involve intensive periods of research, often collaborating with individuals and groups of people, who inform and influence the production of her work. Placing value in process, mirroring bodily sentiments to contextual specificities and translating them in an artistic form present both in her object-based media, paintings and performance. With emphatic morphology, she engages in a delicate intervention in the power relations that is manifested in the subsequent material representation, combining static elements and pointing to their potential through the dynamic bodily sensorial experience, she attempts to highlight the borderless and transgressive aspect of our individual bodies and collective infrastructures.
Appealing to her own sensibility, using a wide vocabulary of mediums, time and things fold over each other, she often use and reuse the same piece, they reappear in other forms, old notes revised and expanded, the human condition, power and justice, maintaining the illusion, outwardly performative, a preoccupation with language. There is a consistent sensitivity to the nuance of material in balance with the context, she finds this way of working both political and poetic. Her work evolves slowly through the process of making, working and reworking, there’s a continuum at play.
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