Reisman | Statement

Statement
Susanna Reisman

DETAIL: One and the Same
(after Hilla and Bernd Becher), 2007

The work in this series, entitled “Domestic Disclosures,” engages with the ideas of familiarity, repetition, and transformation in relation to that which makes up our everyday. For this project, I have turned inwards to take a close look at my domestic environment and the everyday items I use during the daily routines of cooking, cleaning, and working at home.

Each day, I would choose a new item, set it on the stage, and perform a series of improvised alterations to it. In making these ephemeral sculptures, I soon realized and became interested in the fact that, in some instances, the gestures I performed and the forms that these objects assumed subconsciously referenced artworks of which I am very fond.

In retrospect, this seems fortuitous and indeed bound to happen, as I am continually engaging with art of all kinds (in galleries, museums, books, magazines, and on the web). Inevitably, these artworks are processed and digested in various ways. And it is the artists whose work, strategies, and interventions I admire the most which have been more fully digested and which have become such familiar territory. They have influenced how I work and how I see the world, and they have become a part of my own visual vocabulary and repertoire.

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