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1/2/2012

I've been carrying around this residency in my head for days now, turning it over and over, wondering where to start with the tangle of ideas that I finally want to pick up and unravel. While attending a discussion tonight exploring a way forward for an arts organisation that is restructuring, I scribbled down these words.

'...dangerously interested in work that isn't work, no product, just questions, a carving out of time...'

Below is a still from a video I made last year. Somehow it's approach encapsulates a lot of what I am hoping to find as I move forward with the residency. Click on the image to view.

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Susan Francis is a Belfast born artist now living in the South of England

Assigning words to a process which, by it's nature endeavors to exist outside the borders of a textual medium will never be easy. I suppose, to use a literary metaphor, I see my work as a constant enquiry, an incomplete sentence, a phrase articulated through material, object and space. It is quiet work, a vocabulary of cast offs, objects, liquids and processes, at times unstable, prone to decay, but familiar to us all.

With influences ranging from Eva Hesse's organic minimilism to Watteau’s scenes of frivolous beauty tinged with wistful sadness, my work is often unashamedly poetic. Peering into the unspoken corners of our condition, I traverse a landscape shifting beneath us as the domestic enclave is infiltrated by a digitally connected world, where the ambiguity and at times falsity of relationships, truth and love languish in a vulnerable and fragile context.

At the core of my practice I suppose I wish to open a dialogue with myself, the space, the viewer – where others will take that conversation is for them to decide.

Note to the Author

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