Susanne Ludwig

ARTISTIC PRACTICE
My artistic practice revolves around our experience of reality, loss, longing, time, memory and identity.
Initially I produced photographs of abandoned industrial interiors. These images were packed with forlorn debris left by the bankrupt proprietors. I discovered my interest in objects being residues of the passing time.
This developed further into a photographic series of discarded objects collected by my grandmother. She accumulated a vast collection of antiques and simple every day-objects of the past and put it on display in her cellar. While photographing her museum, I drew my own imagination of her life to the surface by playing light over these items. I imagined my grandmother's life before I was born. Moreover, they developed a double meaning: having surrounded me throughout my early life, these objects also turned into memories of my own childhood. Coming from photography I also use moving images (video).

Susanne Ludwig was born in 1975 in Hanover, Germany and grew up in Nothern Germany. She studied Photography at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Art and graduated in 2004, Kiel. In 2006 she started her MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art. Graduating in 2008 she received the Davis Langdon A...

Royal College of Art, London