Sarah Sudhoff
Line of Gravity
Archival pigment print
2022
I am a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist who interweaves themes of gender, science, and personal experience in my work, exploring notions of motherhood, mortality, intimacy, and illness. I deconstruct narratives to gain clarity and create immersive spaces for discovery through photographs, performance, sculpture, video, and sound. For the past 15 years, my work has been influenced by my professional background as a photojournalist, which has allowed me to systematize my curious nature while maintaining an ethical obligation to any given subject area. My motivation for working as an artist is to challenge perceptions of constructed ideals and establish space for conversation, empathy and understanding.
All of my works are, in some way, socially engaged and inherently participatory. The way these methods and materials are utilized vary from project to project and take advantage of the media, site, and participants involved. My works can be categorized into one or more of the following three areas of concern: Ethics of Care, Social Practice, and the Visualization of Data. By using creative practice as a mediator between subjective and objective experiences, I engage in conversations that address bodies and communities as shared and yet, ultimately, distinct.
In my most recent series, Line of Gravity, I employ self-reflection through video, photography and performance, to explore the subject of domestic violence. Based on a series of personal experiences from the Summer 2021, the series seeks to portray both the internal and external struggles one faces on the way to reclaiming a self lost to abuse.
Through this experience of movement and sound, I intend to show how the stories of our lives are recorded and imprinted on our bodies. In return, the audience is invited to share in the artist’s own journey toward understanding and, ultimately, a reclamation of one’s own power.
