Su-Mei Tse

Since the early 2000s Su-Mei Tse (b. 1973, Luxembourg) has developed an oeuvre that is informed by her training in visual arts and music as well as by her cosmopolitan European and Asian background. Her deeply poetic videos, sculptures and installations reveal the unfolding of time and the subjectivity of experience. Much of her work is concerned with acoustics, but, rather than as a recurring theme, she uses sound for its distinctly evocative aspects and as a prism through which she contemplates the world. In this way, she stages Les Balayeurs du désert [The Desert Sweepers] like a choreography where the sweeping is turned into music.

Many Spoken Words sets off a multitude of associations. Forming from a basin, dark black ink gushes forth from a garden fountain of baroque inspiration and, as the artist remarks, “expresses the idea of the whole process of language: the way an initial thought or idea develops first into spoken, and then into written words” (Su-Mei Tse). Through this work, as much visual as it is sonorous, the artist pays homage to literature, evoking the infinite potential of words and the eternal renewing of creation. The multiple and incessant drops of Many Spoken Words make the fluidity of the spirit, words, and creativity perceptible, and leave indelible traces.