Suzan D. Polat

photo by Volkan Ergen

Statement

I am…

… someone obsessed with the intriguing nature of the relation between the imagined and the experienced, and how trying to express one always somehow produces the other.

… someone endlessly curious about and fascinated with the body’s corporeal presence and power in the space, its transformation through time; and how the appearance of each singular body, how what a particular body does and does not do can be framed and distorted in various ways.

… someone interested in inhabiting other mindscapes, bodies, places.

I believe...

... that life is expanded choreography.

... that we are all nomadic subjects, always missing, opaque to ourselves.

... that movement is a celebration of change and life, a reiteration of our innate freedom, a form of negotiation among ourselves, a way of correspondence between the known and the unknown, between inner life and external form, between our minds and spaces.

Copyright © 2011, Suzan D. Polat