Susan Harbage Page

I have three solo exhibitions opening one right after the other in the space of 6 weeks so life is a bit of a whirlwind. Here is all of the information in one spot for you.

Since 2007 I have been walking the river border in East Texas along the Rio Grande photographing the objects people leave behind as they flee their homes, often due to economic necessity, violence, or climate change. The stories attached to the objects are unknown, but the message that these individuals are risking their lives in hopes of creating new homes in a safer place here in the United States is clear.

June 13, 2020

Everyone Performance, Enez Kalesi Turkey

This summer I began fieldwork on the Evros River Border Crossing: Border Biopolitics and Embodied Cartography project supported by a Pogue Senior Research Faculty leave from UNC-Chapel Hill. The research  enlarges the scope of my work to create a comparative transnational discourse about two rivers which have become the locus of bordering between nations, the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo between the U.S.

What happened with couples during lockdown? 

This new project I am working on in conjunction with Laura V. d B. Faccini, Windmill Art Power Plant and Sincreses combines a look at relationships, covid, and home. I'm curious as to how concepts of home have shifted in the last few years.

I invite you to participate!

The exhibition will take place at Sincresis Spazio D'Arte, Empoli, Italy

I will be on site in Empoli September 15 and 16. Hope to see you there.

Super excited about this upcoming exhibition at the Sala Boromini at the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome. Paintings...book pages...library cards...embroidery...saws. All explored and altered in various ways.

Thanks to Manuela de Leonardis for curating and to Alessandra Sceratto @ TRAleVOLTE for coordinating and great design work.

More info to come.

Super excited to be heading off to the Evros River Border Crossing between Turkey and Greece for some transnational research into the geopolitics of the area this year. I will be thinking about borders as "climate walls" and how they are used to keep refugees at bay. 

The malleability of borders in this Covid Pandemic has shown us that they are at once imagined and historically mutable and rigidly defined (defended) constructions of national political will.

Super excited to walk to the Post Office this morning and find this new book by Audrey Goodman. I am grateful for her friendship, her discussions, and her writing. She touches on my U.S.-Mexico Border Project in this book. Congratulations Audrey.

Just found out I have work in this new Rubbittino publication by Giorgio Bonami Il Corpo Solitario. L’Autoscatto Nella Fotografia Contemporanea, Vol. III.

In early December the Ambasciatore di Spello in the World and Il Tribbio Cultural Association of Spello hosted Rakesh Surampudi, Cultural Affairs Officer from the U.S Embassy, Rome.

Surampudi spoke at the 10th Edition of the National and International Giuseppe Carpanacci Poetry Competition sponsored by Il Tribbio and the Ambasciatore. I participated as a member of the Ambasciatore, a group of foreign nationals who are committed to supporting the community and cultural events in Spello.

Feminist Art Action - October 9, 2021

This fall I was fortunate to participate in an international event sponsored by L'Associazione Culturale WindMill, Prato Italy which was dreamed up, sponsored and organized by artist Laura FdB Facchini.

Art is in Your Hands: Ecce Domina

October 9, Villa Rospigliosi, Prato, Italy

A group of international feminist artists gathered in Prato at Villa Rospigliosi in Prato, Italy.