Suzanne Kosmalski explores the intersection between memory, image,
and identity in multi-media installations based on the life of
German performer Marlene Dietrich and the charged arena of boxing.
Her brilliance at the combination of elegant and brutal sport and
elegant and brutal beauty is a prime example of collaboration and
transformation: she collaborates with the figures of the past to
create a shapely fog of memory and desire.
Her work on view in the Only Human exhibition at the Minnesota
Museum of American Art in Saint Paul.
Sue has worked with photos in video, printmaking, and installations.
Her work mixes old footage with new tech, pulling movies and sportscasts
into shifting arrays that give you the very texture of time and
the sensation of the past. She has work in the collections of the
Walker, and just this year got a McKnight Fellowship and will show
her work at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design this summer.
You might remember the time she took over an abandoned theater
in downtown St. Paul to stage The Memory Theater Project (2000),
or the boxing piece That All You Got, (2003) she did at No Name
Exhibitions at the Soap Factory. She was born in St. Paul and has
made her career here, in the Twin Cities, and now exhibits work
around the country, from New York to Texas.
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