Suzann Victor
Dusted by Rich Manoeuvre 2000 - 2001 courtesy of Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore
exhibited at the 49th Venice Biennale, 2001

 


Suzann Victor
Dusted by Rich Manoeuvre (detail)
2000 - 2001 courtesy of Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore
exhibited at the 49th Venice Biennale, 2001

Suzann Victor: Expense of Spirit In A Waste of Shame

 


Suzann Victor's large-scale installation for the Adam Art Gallery, the first work by this artist to be seen in New Zealand, explores an interest in vision and mis-recognition as metaphors for the complexities of understanding of self and others. Victor places the viewer within an amazing moving array of lights and mirrors, arousing responses of fear and narcissism, attraction and repulsion, within a space fraught with the nervous tensions of desire and potential violence. A diasporic artist, born in post-colonial Singapore and currently based in Australia, Suzann Victor regards her works as "offerings that visually embody the "Others with/in the Other". Victor represented Singapore in the 49th la Biennale de Venezia, 2001.