Susanne Kutter stages small and large catastrophes. Her works are always about threat, destruction and disillusionment. With subtle irony she questions existing power structures, conventions and principles of order, the works reflect a constant loss of private security and control. In sometimes stage-like experimental arrangements, Susanne Kutter stages, for example, (living) spaces that are destroyed by physical or biological forces in the course of a process similar to a natural disaster. In doing so, she focuses on the sometimes dramatic moment of change in an apparently stable structure.
In the formal design of Susanne Kutter's works, chance plays a significant, aesthetic role. Kutter sometimes employs anarchistic strategies to create space for unpredictable chaos; it is ignited, flooded, stirred up, overturned, crushed, turned upside down, or infested with vermin. Their experimental staging of destruction creates ambivalent images of peculiar poetry, melancholy and comedy.

Gianluca Ranzi