Susan Jorgen

Susa Jörgen's sculptures resemble lightweights. Wrapped and shaped from wire, they have more volume than mass.

They radiate an unmistakable physicality. They represent busts, torsos, a life-size centaur. The wire always winds itself around imaginary bodies in numerous circles, loops and tangles in order to become bodies themselves. In addition to her filigree physique, Susa Jörgen's sculptures have another characteristic: Instead of just resting on pedestals, they hang from the ceiling. You can walk around them or, when a draft hits the room, watch them rotate slowly.

If light comes into play, the sculpture on the walls doubles. Her shadow, however, appears neither flat nor dark; on the contrary, due to the many circling lines, it is once again formed into a three-dimensional, light-infused body. From time to time, the relationship between the sculpture and its shadow is reversed, when the sculpture takes on the traits of a drawing and its shadow transitions into the realm of virtual three-dimensionality. It is the play with the body, its oscillating between drawing and volume, between real and projected form, that determines not only Susa Jörgen's wire sculptures, but also her red chalk or charcoal drawings.