Looking Into the Distance Becomes Difficult II
After initially focusing on society itself—on what it is and how it comes into being, shaped by the socio-political and economic interests of the majority—Surya Suran Gied has, since 2017, increasingly shifted her attention toward the personal sphere and her immediate family circle. By leaving behind the comfort zone of surface appearances and delving deeper, most of her works now engage with the singular—the individual—particularly in relation to the themes of fragmentation and the dynamics of seeing and being seen.
Whereas her earlier series addressed the anonymous masses who reached Europe across the Mediterranean, her more recent works revisit the same discourse of migration as it unfolded thirty or forty years earlier, often through the perspective of her mother. The fate of the migrant, suspended at the margins, appears as one who wavers—standing uncertainly at the threshold.
Text excerpt: Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
After initially focusing on society itself—on what it is and how it comes into being, shaped by the socio-political and economic interests of the majority—Surya Suran Gied has, since 2017, increasingly shifted her attention toward the personal sphere and her immediate family circle. By leaving behind the comfort zone of surface appearances and delving deeper, most of her works now engage with the singular—the individual—particularly in relation to the themes of fragmentation and the dynamics of seeing and being seen.
Whereas her earlier series addressed the anonymous masses who reached Europe across the Mediterranean, her more recent works revisit the same discourse of migration as it unfolded thirty or forty years earlier, often through the perspective of her mother. The fate of the migrant, suspended at the margins, appears as one who wavers—standing uncertainly at the threshold.
Text excerpt: Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
