Susan Hefuna is fascinated in the networks and structures of connection that inhabit public spaces and how they become the framework for peoples’ interactions with each other, in particular how these networks become visible through and influenced by architectural models and city planning. Upon arriving at a city, she spends a few days traversing its streets and squares until this calmative process lulls her into a state in which she feels ready to compose work that will capture the atmosphere of the location. Her drawings, often her initial artistic response to a place,start with a single dot or line that unfolds in a single session without the need for preliminary drafts. The resulting work is not subjected to a pre-determined system but instead are intuitively composed and open to changes and subversions that are influenced by the specific location. Hefuna’s delicately composed structures suggest interlocking forms, such as DNA, embroidery, molecular structures and most significantly, buildings or maps. Each relating to a place not through reproducing its recognisable visual facets, but rather through materialising the abstract impression it has on the artist. ...
