Galerie Fenna Wehlau - Susanne THIEMANN

Opposites always attract, that is a fact: bright and dark; order and disorder; happy and sad; the beauty and the beast. Everything would be boring without its evil counterpart.

The sculptures of Susanne Thiemann are composed of thin monochrome plastic hoses, coloured electric wires, and thick strips of shredded car tyres.

Pieces of lost property and remaining stocks of mass-produced, hardly decomposing products. Materials that are triggering many connotations because they belong to our everyday life and use. Susanne Thiemann works with simple materials that are generally available, and she uses one of the oldest crafts in the world – the art of weaving and interlacing.

Thus she joins single cords to shapes ranging from solid braided skin to a loose network of tyres cut into pieces.

Susanne Thiemann works with the rigid and floating, with the self-contained and the tattered. Her sculptures relate to each other and to the room. Sometimes standing in the middle of it, sometimes lying around in a corner as a shimmering, loudly coloured soft machine, or dangling down from the ceiling like stockings. Whether alone or in a group, they always give the impression that opposites attract.

Susanne Robberts (extract)