Disco Balls
Jeanne Susplugas
2024
Installation – Sculptures
From 2017, Jeanne Susplugas creates sculptures of various sizes entitled Disco ball. These works take the form of faceted balls representing molecules of substances capable of altering consumers’ consciousness.
Here, three of these disco balls are presented as a single installation, three molecules representing alprazolam, ether and chlorophorme. The hijacking of the disco ball, a seductive object evoking the world of partying and its dangers, bears witness to the artist’s interest in questions of addiction. True to her approach, she also questions the power of dance, capable in itself of replacing any substance. To tame thoughts that are sometimes too invasive, to get drunk and let go, why not dance under these welcoming, festive balls?
Artists
Jeanne Susplugas
Jeanne Susplugas’ work plunges us into an engaged, sensitive universe that explores different forms and strategies of confinement. She questions the individual’s relationship to himself and to others, in the face of an obsessive, dysfunctional world.
With distance, she explores a wide range of media – drawing, photography, installation, sculpture, sound, film, virtual reality, glass, ceramics, strands of light. All of these languages enrich each other to create an aesthetic that is seductive on the surface, but quickly becomes grating, even disquieting. The multiple ramifications of her work create a corpus rich in interpretation.
Her work has been widely exhibited in France and abroad. It can be found in numerous public and private collections.
