'Out of Time' installation @ Hotel d'Astier, Forcalquier, France 2023
A major solo exhibition and site-specific installation, Out of Time at Hotel d'Astier, Forcalquier, France.
The renaissance courtyard installation, Hot Air evoked the night sky, hot air balloons, and a miniature universe. Meticulously crafted and subtly revealing, this installation established the links between colonial behaviours, global warming, pandemics, and our fragile world. As well as the underlying deeper meanings the work is also uplifting and evoked a sense of play and wonder. Each globe resembles a hot air balloon and appears to float across the space with objects associated with global warming hanging in place of where the balloons basket; a gun, toy oil tankard, iPhone, coal basket to name a few.
Susan’s interest in the politics of feminism and the body has led to a series of dress sculptures including, Territory Dress, 2018, commissioned by and on permanent display in Our Colonial Inheritance at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam and Colonial Dress, which in the collection of the House of European History in Brussels.
For this exhibition Susan created a new sculptural dress, entitled Europa, the sculpture reflects her time in France and questions recent historic events in Europe, including the war in Ukraine, Brexit and mass migration.
The title of the exhibition was inspired by the Blur song Out of Time –
And you’ve been so busy lately
That you haven’t found the time
And watch the world spinning
We’re out of time out of time