Susanna Inger Sørensen (b. 1998) is a Norwegian artist based between The Hague and Oslo. Working primarily with wood sculpture, video, and painting, she often brings these media together in installation-based practices.
Her artistic practice examines materials, particularly wood, through Marxist and feminist perspectives. She explores how traditional carving and wood as a living, organic material exist within systems of production, and how these systems relate to alienation and the contemporary body.
Sørensen understands material not only through its physical properties, but also as a carrier of labor, social history, and ideology. This material inquiry forms the conceptual foundation of the work.
Her work engages with intermediary conditions in which assumed truths are unsettled and renegotiated. These conditions manifest across multiple dimensions of lived experience: transitions between life stages such as childhood and adulthood, existential thresholds between life and death, and the ambiguous spaces within identity politics.
Sørensen’s recent work centers on traditional wood carving, exploring themes of metamorphosis and material transformation. She integrates text, often drawn from personal poetry and instruction manuals for electronic equipment into sculptural forms, creating a dialogue between organic material, language, and systems of control. Through this, she examines the human body in relation to labor and alienation, drawing on Marxist theory and feminist approaches to embodiment.