SUSY OLIVEIRA / ONTARIO
APPROACH
Through her tridimensional works designed to evoke the virtual modelings simulating reality, Susy Oliveira questions our habits of replacing nature with fabricated replicas. In her works, there is a playful dynamic which associates the characteristics of photography with those inherent to sculpture. Their structure incorporates the angles and features of some giant origami. The photographs are mounted on each face of a volume to restore the three dimensions of the image. Through this process, the shape is both simplified and amplified, giving the photography a volume, an ambiguous character oscillating between reality and fiction.
PROJECT
“I would like to produce a corpus of recent works entitled Your face, like a lone nocturnal garden in Worlds where Suns spin round! This title is taken from the novel Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs by Jean Genet and refers to the fictious lover of the author. Recently, I started a creation inspired by this quotation and I hope to realize a group of works that, once assembled, will compose a “make-believe garden”. By reproducing nature – using landscape architecture or biotechnology – we try to control it so we can feel closer to the pleasures it brings us without having to deal with the inconveniences. In the quotation, the character – Genet himself – fantasizes about a man with whom he has never had any real contact and imagines a passionate relationship. In my fictive garden, I hope to translate the feelings of wonderment and intimidation that Genet associates in this sentence. I intend to create a mural, a mask composed of images of flowers, leaves, twigs, etc.”
MILESTONES
Master in Fine Arts, Waterloo University (2006). The Girl and the Bear, Peak Gallery, Toronto (2008), Appetite, nuit blanche, Toronto (2008), PLAY/GROUNDS, Queen West Art Crawl, Toronto (2008), ’fOR yOUR pLEASURE’, University of Waterloo Art Gallery (2006), Colossi, Katherine Mulherin, Salon des refusés, Toronto (2004).
www.susyoliveira.ca
www.peakgallery.com