In Love’s Bluest Sorry, the artist looks to the popular emotional languages of country music and culture to explore our problematic relationships to contemporary life. Long interested in country and western’s inherent sentimentalities, narrative paradigms, and evangelical understanding of the human existence, in Love’s Bluest Sorry, Browne examines her own history for the place where fear, obsession, and fantasy meet, pressing on through contradiction to reveal the origins of both her own, and the world’s, often opposing desires.

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About Susanna

Susanna Browne (b. 1987) is a Vancouver-based artist and arts administrator living and working within the unceded Indigenous territories belonging to the Musqueam, Skxwú7mesh-ulh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and Tsleil-Watututh peoples. She received a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2010), an MFA from Piet Zwart Institute (2015), and has also studied at McGill University and Parsons Paris. Browne’s multi-disciplinary practice spans video, digital collage, installation, sound, text, and performance; through a mining of pop culture tropes and an elevation of quotidian fantasies, she conflates subversion with infatuation, skepticism with desire. Her work has been exhibited in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Canada. Her writing has been featured in Setup and General Fine Arts, among others. An artist book, Country War Songs, was published by Publication Studio Vancouver in 2011.

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