Sue de Beer uses staged videos, photographs, and performances to examine how the media affects our perception of the natural. Using puns and tasteless jokes as unlikely inspirations, she alludes to events that are simultaneously disastrous and banal.

Her use of abject props emphasizes her perversely quixotic attempts to defy the laws of physics and social convention. Her performance, entitled Endurance, features exercise videos with the artist and her partner on a sofa, prosthetically joined at the lips.

Sue de Beer received a BA from Parsons School of Design and an MFA from Columbia University. Following her exhibition at Momenta, de Beer has exhibited her work at numerous venues, including Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC, Video Library, David Zwirner Gallery, NYC, Apex Art, NYC, the project room at Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, France, and a solo exhibition at Deitch Projects, NYC.