Suse Weber works with sculpture, installation, sound and performance. Utilizing these media, she has developed her own conceptual complex of emblematic sculpture, a specific system of signs reminiscent of the semiotics of political symbols and coats of arms. The everyday social structures which the artist addresses in her works, frequently provide the point of departure. Weber’s emblematic sculptures are largely walk-in ones, examining learned patterns of behaviour. Employing fragmentation and scenographic structures, familiar systems of signs and colours are translated into conceptual building blocks that become both the acoustic and optical components of a new structure. As part of Ruhr Ding and in collaboration with the Scenic Research Course at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Suse Weber is undertaking a critical approach to the pigeon, “the racehorse of the common man”, in an installation in public space she is deconstructing the bird’s physiognomy as well as its real and metaphorical significance. Suse Weber [born 1970] lives in Berlin.
