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S uzanne Smith
Lives and works in Manchester, United Kingdom

An artist's statement

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uzanne Smith is
fascinated with the
politics of the everyday;
her practice reflects the
negotiation of an environment
saturated with social norms
and conventions. In her eyes,
everything is odd and
everything is interesting.
Smith is intrigued by the
point midway between
appalling and delightful. It is
the tension in the mundanity the something in the nothing that really gets her going.

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Smith often works with text,
found objects, photography,
film and found image. A seam
of appropriation, collage and
humour runs throughout, as
she feels for the edges of
conventions where
negotiation and collusion take
place. Smith accumulates,
plays and controls - imposing
a preferred order on her
subject and pinning it down
in its new position it long
enough to take a better look.
Occasionally drilling little
holes to let some air in.