1 September – 18 November 2017
Mixed media installation with 2-speaker looped soundtrack
‘Pleasure is a Weapon is the first UK solo exhibition by artist Susie Green. Working in a range of media across sculpture, performance, and painting, this presentation celebrates the body as a site for pleasure and politics.
The installation of sound, objects, and painted works that make up Pleasure is a Weapon probe at feelings and recollections surrounding both immediate and remote sexual intimacy. Green’s typically economic use of materials enmeshes with her preoccupation with fetish and form to create an environment in which feelings are inhabited through the ornamental and physical properties of materials.
Not only an exercise in representing desire but also an attempt to indulge corporeal pleasures, the space of the exhibition invites a sensual encounter between artist, object, and viewer’ – Press release
Soundtrack produced by Simon Bayliss
Supported by Arts Council England
Photos: Patrick Dandy