Susan Buttner, Disquiet Faux, 2022, HD video  00.45 min with sound. 

​Forms gather through bodily, environmental, and artificial materials held in states of friction, repetition, and mutation. Sculpture, painting, sound, and performative gesture unfold through unstable relations between human and nonhuman systems, where surfaces appear simultaneously playful, wounded, and unresolved.

Found materials, painted forms, industrial fragments, and bodily references press, fold, suspend, and collide within shifting spatial arrangements. Gestures repeat through tension and impact, allowing moments of compression, exposure, and imbalance to emerge gradually across the work. Boundaries between body, landscape, and constructed environment remain permeable, where forms move between containment and release.

Developed through open studio conversations and collective exchange, the work approaches climate anxiety not as illustration, but as a condition carried through material relations, bodily vulnerability, and environmental pressure. Meaning unfolds through accumulation, proximity, and ongoing negotiation between care, instability, repair, and transformation.