Sean Smuda is an artist, curator, photographer, and writer, living and working in Berlin. He employs a variety of mediums including photography, sculpture, video, and performance. His projects and collaborations have taken place in Antarctica, Iraq, and Wall Street, and he has served as Cultural Liaison too Tours, France. His work is in the permanent collection of the Walker Art Center.
The work is a daily map of the psycho-geographic effects of the isolation, where one can go in public, and what possible directions this new world holds. Statue faces are bagged and photographed to reflect the need for caution and isolation, food is salted and left to cure for the duration of the initial quarantine, but the work is beyond the static image. Songs and video are improvised, starting in the urban sphere and finishing in nature in appreciation of the virus’s slowing-down of work-time and hopeful renewal of the environment.
Follow his work at: www.seansmuda.com
The Pain, 2020