Susie GREEN

‘I am always so unsure of what exhibition openings ‘do’, so decided to formalise, choreograph and in turn create a pastiche of these events’ – Susie Green.

Green is a Newcastle based artist. In the exhibition Metteurs en Scène, the most significant of her works are presented: The Set Up (2005) – a film created in collaboration with Ilana Mitchell – and Portalfolio (2006-2007), a mysterious performance inaugurating the exhibition.

Green stands in a critical position towards the contemporary cultural industries – the art world, the media and the music industry. By deconstructing and remaking mechanisms of the cultural industries she lets us see daily artefacts and events – such as video clips (The Set Up) or exhibition openings (Portalfolio) – from a different angle. Green is an artist who communicates. Underlining your importance, rethinking your position, her works are dedicated to you – the viewer. By controlling how long and in what way you can look at her works, she wants you to become aware of your relationship to them, both physical – how you are seated, standing or moving whilst looking at it – and emotional: do you feel seduced, comfortable, enraptured or bored?

Green is an artist creating beauty. Whilst most neo-conceptual artists ignore aesthetics, she does not. She creates something that is conceptual and rational but at the same time dreamlike and beautiful; works making your everyday life in a noisy city more glamorous and picturesque.

Eglė Mikalajūnaitė – The Vilnius City Star