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In her installations and performances, Suse Weber, born in 1970 in Leipzig and now living in Berlin, tackles some tough issues: tradition and power, or rather, symbolic order and social structure. In painstaking preƯcision work, the artist develops a very specific system of symbols that she applies to several life-size puppets in performance-like processes. The resulting installations that she calls »emblematic sculptures± are composed of a large number of very small visual elements that show, on the one hand, mundane everyday objects and materials, but on the other hand they resemble Ưnational symbols or elements of heraldry. These 'rhetorƯical figures' – to date more than 1,000 pieces – are the result of various choreographies: turning, moving, sorting, and constantly adding more. This volume, for the first time, offers a systematic compilation on the vast number of possibilities, as well as on the installation and her exhibitions (including 'Made in Germany Zwei', Hanover 2012), thus giving a comprehensive insight into Suse Weber's sculptures