Suzanne Husky Artist Statement
From installation to drawing, to photograph and video, my eclectic work mutates with the questionings I go through. Utilizing recycled and found materials like used textiles and foam, cardboard, paper cut-outs, etc., my sculptures are of poor fabrication quality reclaiming the human hand behind them. My photographs, images and videos share a similar low-resolution aesthetic, guiding the viewer to the content of the work over technical dexterity or perfection.
Perceived as an American in France and as French in America, I remain a spectator in both of my cultures. By extension, my art practice is a form of visual anthropologist. It explores environmental, social and political agendas. Observing and analysing, it always involves much documentation and often comes in series, that art inventory form allows the nature of the subject to unveil and reveal complexity. Successively, machismo, power, love, integrity endorse various forms and are treated with humor and ridicule. It is with hummers and bodybuilders, lesbian weddings and pedal wash machines that I engage sculptural dialogues. In a recent collage series I used body builder images and highlight the extreme lives they are going through by slightly transforming their main activities.
Another way for me to reflect my environment is by creating zen, feminine and manicured zones. Sterilised visually pleasing color assemblages and psychedelic shapes. My rock and flowers gardens and landscape drawings although techno flavored depict worlds where any real element would be completely intrusive. That body of work bridges my art practice and horticulture studies.