Su Tomesen is a visual artist based in Amsterdam and Jogjakarta. In 2007 she got her MA in Fine Art at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Her work consists of videos, photographs and installations and she travels a lot. Working abroad is a means of putting her (European) position, ideas and being into discussion. She worked for an international video project in Port-au-Prince, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. She has been artist-in-residence in Belgrade, Amman, Johannesburg, and currently works in Medellín.

Works and experiences from abroad she brings to the Netherlands and vice versa: “Sometimes I feel like an ambassador, I show works from Johannesburg in Yerevan or I present a video I produced in Cuba in Jogjakarta”. Her art works evolves from researching local circumstances and observing situations. Her background –educated as a historian and working as a director for television– is integrated in her work. By researching the context and by talking to people, she gets triggered and informs herself about urgent topics: “I love exploring places, immersing myself into a context, developing new work and contributing the local art communities.” The outcome of research leads to site-specific works.
 
Next to her work as an artist she teaches video workshops for The One Minutes foundation and Unicef.

Medellín, April 2013