Orphaned From Belonging

Susan Buttner Orphaned from belonging, 2021, performance video still, courtesy the artist, Luan Gallery.
Susan Buttner, Maintaining The Illusion, outwardly Performative (ii), 2021, installation (metal bracket, screws, upholstery foam, acrylic paint, plastic wire)
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Susan Buttner, unknown landscape, graphite, oil on canvas, fabric, 80x100cm
Susan Buttner, Installation view, (2021), New Gallery, Library Gallery

Dublin based multidisciplinary artist Susan Buttner presents Orphaned from Belonging comprising of new sculptures, paintings, performance and sound, in the New Gallery space. Buttner’s practice poses “fundamental questions about the verbal difficulty of expressing pain and the ensuing political and perceptual complications that arise due to this difficulty.” This visceral work has an immediate effect upon the viewer, evoking reactions through the artists’ use of a wide vocabulary of deconstructed and reconstructed materials, modular objects and paintings, contrasting soft and hard, small and big, sharp and round, industrially manufactured with crafted tissues in a pared back palette. All of which, feed into her investigations of pushing boundaries and responding to bodily experiences of imposed force.

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Susan Buttner

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, […]

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