Su Shar Latt is a video-based performance artist who explores the relationship between her body and her past. Drawing on concepts relating to seeking refuge and its lasting effects, she investigates how the past is never forgotten by the body and this memory continuously shapes the present. Born in Burma, and raised in Australia, her diasporic experience informs a practice expressed through acts of indirect resistance.
Her videos convey the systemic inequalities in social and political systems, and the hopelessness that can follow. Dismantling dominant structures imposed upon both mind and environment, Su Shar explores the non-linear nature of healing, as mirrored through the natural world. Her practice poses the question; how do we reconcile the remnants left behind? How do we hold the truth of trauma, and live with it? Inviting reflection on resilience and reclamation through embodied performance, she hopes others can find solace in the strength of vulnerability in her work.
