Work is love made visible - Gibran Khalil Gibran
Susu Attar is a multimedia artist rooted in painting and in her experience as an Iraqi Angeleno. Both Susu’s individual and communal practices explore themes including mourning, hospitality, healing and renewal. Her work across mediums often documents and reimagines struggles for self-determination, from the level of the individual to the family; from local communities to transnational diasporas. Through her wide-ranging and holistic approach, Susu examines existing frameworks within both everyday life and political movements and creates new contexts that center the notion of art as a means of transformation and a space of interconnection.
Susu’s commitment to building narratives that open up future possibilities for collective agency have led her to extend her practice beyond her individual studio work. In order to contextualize her art, Susu’s work aims at building an ecosystem for alternative narratives. Her studio practice is inspired by makerspace labs and consists of individual and collaborative art making, creative production and immersive experiences, community engagement and work with educators. Repeated themes across all work include communal imagination, worldbuilding, archives, placemaking and shared space.
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