Susanne Gabler Artist

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NOW WAS NEW

2023 | installation | word art stralsund

NOW WAS NEW
2023
Schriftinstallation / word art
Stralsund
Chalk spay

NOW WAS NEW ... my site-specific font installation on the facade of the social and entrance building of the Volkswerft Stralsund.

When exactly is NOW? It is a fleeting moment between the future that is happening and the past that has happened. The now are constantly new moments in which our future continually lies before us. 

The question about the future of the Stralsund Volkswerft is the question about future economic forms and thus about sustainable models of production and trade. Given the need to change our global structures in order to act sensibly with our resources, these are also the tasks of the present time. 

The shipyard and its history symbolize these essential questions. As an artist and the daughter of a shipyard worker, I open them lyrically, placed on the outer facade in the urban space and therefore communal.

The stairwell and the glass facade are symbols of the in-between. To fit into the existing architecture, I use the words NOW – WAS – NEW. Manifest, this lettering calls for our common future. 

This work was created for the statewide art show 2023 in MV “betwixt and between”.

word art, August 2023, Kreidefarbe, Volkswerft Stralsund

 

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Collecting and reassembling is an essential principle of Susanne Gabler's artistic approach. This results in sensitive and delicate works that subtly convey their sharpness with reference to political and ecological themes.
The works, most of which are conceptual and produced in situ, adapt to the spatial situation and immediate surroundings, whereby they are created anew each time.

Susanne Gabler's works can be understood as condensed fragments of discourse that are reassembled into objects from found material and linguistic material. They know how to present their mostly difficult themes in a focused way and how to transcend them through their aesthetic content. At first glance, it is simply beautiful art, which in a second step can make you shudder and despair.

Anne Martin, 2023
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