Suzi Potts

Potts is an interdisciplinary artist whose work expands across multiple platforms including performance, installation and lens-based media.

Potts’s installation – ‘Interbeing’ is a sensorial, immersive, atmospheric, transposed interaction with ‘The Web of Life’, imbuing subtle tones of the Homeric myth – ‘The Moirae’ – the 3 fates of human fate and destiny. It is a tunnel of tension leading into 2 short looped audio visual projections. The methodology is durational, embodied and ritualistic. It entails the moving image and sound combined with weaving of materiality (jute twine, a strong, pliable, bio-degradable medium), blurring divisions between genres – these fibres work simultaneously as art, architecture, evocations of a spider’s web, and clothing for an absent figure.

By creating spatial manipulation through fibres, Potts creates transparent walls and infinity zones, separated by thin lines on the threshold of visible and invisible realms. the context of the work is anchored in navigating liminal spaces between life and death, being and absence, rituals and rites of passage, where answers can only be found in the imagination.

The process involves simplicity and complexity, embodying elements of the canon of post-minimalism with its simple shapes, repetitive delicate lines and limited colour palette, influenced in part by Eva Hesse.

"Life doesn’t Last – Art doesn’t last, it doesn’t matter." – Hesse