About

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Susanne Britz’s artistic work centres on an examination of the various objects in our everyday world. The artist is not interested in the isolated object, but rather in the combination of individual objects to create symbolic still lifes and complex, expansive installations in which the individual object undergoes a revaluation as it merges and balances with other objects.
In order to integrate the object into a complex structure of meaning, Britz works with the properties that characterise it, such as materiality, form and colour, utility, symbols and linguistic images. The expectations placed on the object are often not fulfilled, the object is used in an unusual way and thus transformed into a riddle.
The figurative arrangements are reminiscent of disparate cycles with a formulaic character. In this way, Britz transforms our living world, which is over-formed by objects, into an often bizarre and surreal experimental arrangement. This irritates and raises questions, so that philosophical amazement is given a stage here.
In addition to the expansive installations, Britz also creates photographs of arrangements that are digitally reworked and further developed in drawings on the computer. The three-dimensionality of the installation is transferred to the surface, the analogue to the digital, the sculpture to the image and vice versa. In this way, the artistic work passes through various state forms, the blurring of which becomes part of Britz’s visual language and whose individual components – such as prints, assemblages, objects, installations and sketchbooks – are usually transferred into an overall installation. In this, the processual aspect remains visible and individual components of the transformative process are intertwined with one another, thus challenging the viewer to develop their own interpretation in the multi-perspective presented.

Video portrait Susanne Britz