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Veronika Suschnig (Korneuburg/AT 1989) studied painting and sculpture with Daniel Richter and Heimo Zobernig as well as architecture with Alessandra Cianchetta and Antje Lehn at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She works mostly in series and explores artistic, but also socially relevant themes and issues in her works. Not only the choice of material and texture are essential, but also how she creates these very metaphorical references to contemporary problemantics. For her series Drugtales, for example, Suschnig chooses pill blisters; these are meticulously arranged and form a haptic surface on which she mounts writing. The pill is thereby the urge for change that one hopes for through its use. It is a material for personal use, which Suschnig places in an artistic context and at the same time critically examines. For her Pain Poems, on the other hand, she chooses rose thorns and devotes herself to questions of the contemporary psyche – lock-downs and distance, isolation and their impact. Hundreds of thorns are precisely lined up next to each other and in their entirety form written-down snippets of thoughts that reflect, among other things, mental illness. For the artist, the thorns are synonymous with human pain.
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