WhyWhyArt

To be like Water?   Exhibiting Artist & Artwork

Susanne Junker   //   Berlin Night

Berlin Night, 2016

C-print

40x40cm
Where there is water, there is land. Where there is sea, there is coast. Where there is a lake, there is a shore. Where there is a river, there is a bank. To see her body as landscape surrounded by water during the relaxing and intimate moment while alone in the bath tub at home or in the enclosed space of a hotel room, Susanne Junker has come back to imagine her solid flesh as grounds that is parting from the liquid, yet completing a natural understanding that frames the scenario. The knee turns into a rock, the torso turns into islands, thighs turn into a gateway of a cave. This lets the artist playfully created and notice surreal views of her body in conjunction of the triggering reflexions like a lake, the profoundness of the unknown depths like the sea and the layer that moistens her skin like drizzling rain. Achieved all due water, her photographed micro-cosmos showcases certain elements that water represents globally in nature.

Susanne Junker is a photography artist. She was born in Germany in 1973 and is currently based in Paris, France and Shanghai, China. Live and work. She is a self-taught artist who is based primarily on identity and feminism.

Self-observation began as a child, and Susan uses her own body as a canvas to interpret ideas about social issues, feminism, and feminine behavior. In the career of working as a model in the 1990s, the exposure life like “meiosis” began to break her expectations of herself. From then on, she struggled in what she once described as “all-weather perfection”. Since then, she has begun to delve into gender identification, female materialization, and the use of gender in the use of photography, video, painting, and performance in the media. In addition, between 2008 and 2013, Tank founded and hosted the artist’s own art space, Stage Waiting for Back, in Shanghai, China.