Susan Hiller

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Susan Hiller

Artist's Name:

Susan Hiller

Preferred medium:

mixed media

birth year:

1942

Nationality:

City:

London

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Index presents the work of Susan Hiller with a focus on the installation Magic Lantern (1987) and Triplet (1991 - 2009). An in?uential ?gure in British and European art over the past four decades, Hiller's work can be framed in terms of Arte Povera and Conceptual Art as well as her early history in anthropology, however it is her engagement with Surrealism - the repressed and the misunderstood - that remains at the heart of her work. The relationship to technologies of the image are central to both works in this exhibition, technologies that in Hiller's hands themselves become cultural artefacts. Magic Lantern is one of the many works of Hiller's that use apparently simple forms of illumination. It is a sublime slide projection, in the dark, generated by three discs of coloured light driven by electronic pulses. This technical device has been taken from its original context as an early scienti?c experiment. This is not a benign return to the discovery of a source, for as in all of Hiller's work, her sources become fragments torn from their context. This is also the fate of Magic Lantern's synchronised soundtrack of recorded 'ghost' voices - they are the experiments of Latvian scientist Konstantin Raudive who believed he had recorded the voices of the dead. Hiller's voice too is here as she whispering invites us into the realm of story telling, ' ...10 minutes of silence for the dead starting - now'. Science and so-called irrational beliefs are re-exposed here as a meditative, critical practice. Hiller's gestures toward Freud as in much of her work, " Freud said that an un-critical belief in psychic powers was an attempt at compensation for what he poignantly called 'the lost appeal of life on this earth". Triplet is an inverse play on illumination. The objects that make up the work are 35 mm slides of images from a Mexican children's game, mounted on three brackets and installed vertically on the wall. This formation of three is an echo of the affect of Hiller's Magic Lantern with its three discs of light, red, yellow and blue that overlaps and shifts in scale - either small, or flooding of our visual field. Jean Fisher, writing on Magic Lantern, recognizes that, " three is never a privileged number. Two overlapping colours make a third; but three overlapping colours make a multiplicity". (Index, Stockholm)

important exhibitions from Susan Hiller

Exhibition	Location	City	Country	Date
Documenta 13	documenta	Kassel	DE	09.06.2012

Susan Hiller	Tate Britain	London	GB	01.02.2011

Susan Hiller - The Last Silent Movie	Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art	Toronto	CA	22.09.2011

The J.Street Project	The Jewish Museum San Francisco	San Francisco	US	17.06.2009

Susan Hiller. Outlaw Cowgirl and Other Works	Bawag Contemporary - BAWAG Foundation	Wien	AT	09.05.2008

Susan Hiller : Recall - Arbeiten von 1969-2004	Kunsthalle Basel	Basel	CH	30.01.2005

Susan Hiller: Recall	Museu Serralves	Porto	PL	29.08.2004

The Real Me	ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London	London	GB	25.09.2005

Susan Hiller - Recall	BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art	Gateshead	GB	01.05.2004

WHAT I SEE	montehermoso Vitoria-Gasteiz	Vitoria-Gasteiz	ES	19.09.2010