Susannah Pal (22 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: London) Chelsea College of Art & Design
With ninety quid tins of silicone rubber, a large melting vat, buckets of superfine plaster and brilliant technical advice, I was able to make whatever sculpture I wanted in Chelsea’s fantastic workshops. Now, workshop-less and counting my coppers I am replacing the traditional sculptural materials with more rudimentary resources. Running parallel to my workshop-less predicament is how my ‘have, have, have’ Noughtie gene ...[more]
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Work of art I would like to make
The Noughtie girl is a risqué teasing minx who updates her soul online the morning after whilst using her knickers as her weapon to smite anyone who challenges her way of life. Using a mish mash of low tech materials I intend to disrupt this mass produced Noughtie Girl by constructing well crafted objects. I also want to experiment with sound and motors; a dismembered torso precariously turns on her stand with what seems like sweet muffled gibberish from a distance. However up close her message is clear and disturbing ‘My mission is to spread the viral condition of self love for no reason, the epidemic condition of a woman adoring herself just because she can… just because she’s incandescent, just because she’s a woman’.
In my work I want to reveal a rich exuberance in improbable ways.