Susanne  Schwieter

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I see the world as a dynamic, interconnected field in continuous transformation.
Identity is never fixed. Images, bodies and materials change through context, movement and perception; they become what they are through their relationships and through the gaze that meets them.
My practice works within these shifting conditions, translating them into painting, material and image.

 

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I experience images as unstable.

They move between memory, digital circulation and material form, changing as they pass from one system into another. My practice follows these translations through painting, sculpture and image-based processes.

Painting and sculpture are not separate disciplines in my work but different material states within the same process. An image can migrate through search-engine images, Photoshop, chrome pigment prints, oil paint, translucent glazes or cast aluminium, carrying traces of each previous state into the next.


I am interested in the moment an image begins to lose its stability. Abstraction is not a departure from representation but the result of an image moving through materials, processes and time. Form appears, dissolves and re-emerges as multiple states of the same image coexist within a work.


Each body of work approaches this question through a different system. Don't Black the Sun begins with images circulating online. Choreo translates remembered movement into painting. Tongues transfers speech into cast aluminium. Recent works extend this investigation through chrome pigment prints combined with painting, allowing digital and painted states of a single image to exist simultaneously.



I do not think of images as fixed representations but as material processes with their own momentum.

I am interested in the point where an image begins to follow its own logic, and where translation becomes a way of producing new forms rather than reproducing existing ones.