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My artworks and films investigate the embodiment of psycho-social heritage and explore subjects of social ecologies, female kinship and the intrusiveness of psychic space. Through my practice I play with the performative positionality of the body’s gestures at the interface between hidden, intimate spaces and shared, staged spaces.

Recent installations, a combination of textile works, experimental films and photography, have been concerned with the transfer of the corporeal imaginary to tangible outer surfaces, or, in different words, to “the real world” and its conditions. There is a search for the intangibility of this intersection, besides the ocular effect of the transposition itself. This raises the question what kind of information, sensation or emotion is lost, gained or retracted. The works also question if the transmitted new plane of vision is genuine, or shattered, or somehow restored to something outside the body.

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Suzan Noesen (1985) is a Dutch-Luxembourgish artist and filmmaker working between Montréal, Canada and Septfontaines, Luxembourg. She studied Fine Arts with a focus on performance and interdisciplinary practices at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK), painting and drawing at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig (HGB) and followed training in physical theatre at Theaterschool Amsterdam. She also spent a two-year residency at the Ecovillage “Sieben Linden”, where she researched different community communication and decision-making techniques. In 2017 she starts a cohabitation with her grandmother in rural Luxembourg and begins to work as a film director in addition to her visual art work. In 2019, her first short film Book of Hours, a fictionalized portrait of this cohabitation, premiered at the 9th Luxfilmfest at Ciné Utopia and received an Honorable Mention at the NEXXT Competition of the 16th FEST New Directors | New Films Festival. The film was also in exhibition at Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art Contemporain. Suzan Noesen was the laureate of the Bourse Francis André in 2018 and shortlisted artist for the LEAP prize in 2020. She has been artist in residence at Fonderie Darling, Montréal (QC, CA) in 2022.