Suzy Forel, artist from Berlin. Her collages circle one question: where does your time go?
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Theater des Westens I have been making art all my life. I think I was born that way. As a child I painted the walls until my father got upset. Later it was my shoes, my clothes and entire rooms. I always had to make them my own.
At some point I could not stop thinking about how often we live in the past or wait for the future. We barely notice the present. Maybe time itself is only an illusion, a bubble we sit inside without realising it.
I make my pictures from paper, acrylic, ink and things other people would throw away. Much of the tissue paper comes from my own shoe boxes. I tear it by hand and piece the fragments together into a new story.
“Life is like a game, and I like to play.”More about Suzy →
As featured in
Theater des WestensMindshift Festival Every work signed and numbered. A commission is built around your idea.
Paper, acrylic, charcoal and spray paint on textured surfaces. Magazine cutouts become typography.
Concrete blocks, TV tower, Brandenburg Gate. The city meets time travel and parallel worlds.
Available originals straight from the studio, or a commission built on your idea.
Selected works
Figures, clocks, dates and fragments of text overlap within the collages. Each viewing brings different connections to the surface.
What you see in them changes over time.
See all worksMost of us are rarely here. We get caught in yesterday or already in tomorrow. The now stands open and no one walks in.
Reality is no more than an illusion.
Art in motion
My work does not end with paper and frames. I also paint some motifs onto fabric. Once someone wears them, the work leaves the exhibition space and moves through everyday life.
After an emergency operation nearly took me out of time, I wanted to thank a friend whose music had helped me.
That idea became two painted sweaters for the musical “Wir sind am Leben” at Theater des Westens.
A machine would be faster. But then it would no longer be one of a kind. Every sweater knitted, painted and signed by hand. Not an off-the-rack costume. A wearable picture.
“No two are the same.”Watch on Instagram ↗
Three minutes among my pictures: who I am, what the time travellers are after and why time is my material.
A selection of places where my works have been shown.
My works hang in private collections in Berlin and beyond. And people stop in front of the pieces, which means more to me than any sale.
Your time runs. Between meetings, feeds, the next quarter.
The future? It just happens. Without you.
It doesn’t have to.
Time travellers steal time where it counts for nothing, and carry it where it does some good.
Time lies in our hands. Yours too.
Let’s seize the future.
The time travellers can only show the way. We have to walk it ourselves.
Right to be real.
Interested in an original? Send me the work number or briefly describe the piece. I will let you know whether it is available and what happens next.
You can also view the work in my Berlin studio. A few lines are enough to start.
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