Video: Recycled Paper Installations by Susan Benarchik
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
For many of us, clutter is primarily associated with heaps of unnecessary pieces of paper that clutter up the desk or are transferred from place to place in the house. However, for the installation master Susan Benarcik, old newspapers and papers are the most valuable material from which she creates sculptural forms and wall compositions.
Susan Benarchik's work falls somewhere in the middle between installation art and surface design. The goal pursued by the author in his works is to rid the viewer of preconceived notions about the organic forms and complexity of modern life. Susan seeks to show that the "echo of nature" is invariably present in all our activities and areas of life, and uses paper for this - the most commonplace and ubiquitous material.
Pages from books, old newspapers and other unnecessary pieces of paper collected from friends and neighbors - all this in the hands of the author turns into intricate sculptural forms. For example, the installation "Mental Notes" represents old letters collected over the years, pages from romance novels, various notes strung on a wire and hung from the ceiling. This work shows us the short duration of nature and memory, because all these papers were once of a certain importance for their owners, and now they have gone to the trash.
Waste paper is not the only material that Susan works with, and installations are not her only genre. In addition, the author is also engaged in sculpture and photography. However, all her works are aimed at studying the relationship between man and nature, and in each of them the author seeks to invest his concern for the state of the environment.
Susan Benarchik lives and works in New York. You can see her work on the author's website.
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