Talk: Batia Suter

Thursday, November 1, 2018, 1 p.m.
School for the Contemporary Arts Visual Art Studios
Suite #330 – 611 Alexander Street

Please join us for a FREE talk by Batia Suter.

Suter is in Vancouver for an exhibition at the Polygon, which opens on Nov 1, 2018 and runs to January 13, 2019. Parallel Encyclopedia Extended marks the artist's first exhibition in North America. She has recently presented exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery, London and Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt in conjunction with the 2018 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. In response to the Polygon Gallery’s location in a rainforest landscape, she will produce a large-scale collage of nature images. Based in the Netherlands, Suter has published numerous artist books and has exhibited widely, most recently at Le Bal in Paris that extended to photographic murals in a railway station.

BATIA SUTER
PARALLEL ENCYCLOPEDIA EXTENDED
NOVEMBER 2, 2018 — JANUARY 13, 2019
The Polygon Gallery, 101 Carrie Cates Ct, North Vancouver, BC
Opening reception: November 1, 8pm

This photographic installation marks the first North American exhibition by Swiss visual artist and bookmaker Batia Suter. Recently exhibited at The Photographers’ Gallery, London and Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt in conjunction with the 2018 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, Suter’s installation explores salient themes in contemporary photography, such as the archive and the legibility of images with digital proliferation. Suter’s constellation of photographic reproductions are drawn from thousands of books. In response to the gallery’s location in a rainforest landscape, she will produce a large-scale collage of nature images. Based in the Netherlands, Suter has published numerous artist books and has exhibited widely, most recently at Le Bal in Paris that extended to photographic murals in a railway station.