LjubicicaLjubicica: Grimoire du futur

During the next five months Espace Multimedia Gantner has a privilege to host British artist Suzanne Treister with her exhibition which title is Grimoir du future.

Suzanne Treister is a British artist. She was born 1958, in London. She studied at St. Martin's School of Art, London ( 1978 - 1981 ) and Chelsea College of Art and Design London ( 1981 - 1982 ). Now , she is based in London but she lived in Australia, New York and Berlin. Suzanne is primarily painter during the 1980's, but she is also a digital artist. She became a pioneer in the digital art , new media and web based field from the beginning of 1990's. She creates fictional worlds and international organizations, making work about emerging technologies, by using a video, Internet, photography, drawing and water color. Her work deals with history, power, hallucinatory and also with identity.

Here are some of her works :

NATO watercolor project 2004-2008 , where she use NATO's codification system and in that way describe and classify large parts of the world around us. In the book she presents items like animals, battleships, perfume, musical instruments which are represented in a way so that they can be used by the Military.

The Alchemy series , takes information’s from front covers of daily newspapers, The Financial Times, Al-Ahram, Dziennik Polski, The Guardian, Le Figaro, The New York Times and Jüdische Allgemeine and presents that covers like alchemical drawings. World is here a place which is animated by strange forces, powers and beliefs. As a part of this, she made a wall drawing A Timeline of Science From Fiction Inventions: Weapons, Warfare and Security. Draws up a history documenting of imaginary and fantastic military technology. She draws schemes of the connected circles of the tree of life from the Jewish mystical traditions of the Kabala.

Correspondence: From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, letter headed paper from governments, presidential offices, embassies, arms companies and corporations.

War Artists , includes 12 portrait drawings which refers to the Second World War and the Iraq war.

Emeyefive, about Stella Rimington, director of MI5

Time travelling with Rosalind Brodsky, artist and film maker, who suffers from delusions. In one of them she believed that she works in the 21th century as a researcher at the Institute of Milltronics and Advanced Time Interventionality. In 2058 she dies and leaves her costumes, time travelling diary , her home in Bavaria and much of her research to Institute, which , in gratitude make a virtual tour about Rosalind.

The most recent work is HEXEN 2.0. This work is presented in the exhibition Grimoire du future. The work is made like a set of tarot cards which picture people, companies, agencies, concepts. Like inspirations for the cards she used conventional Tarot Marseille. But here the subject is historical. Every card present the most significant historical moments which changed the course of 20th century. That can be a person, idea or event. Her thinking are illustrated like cartoon drawing and she used also a handwritten text.

In this cards You can find John von Neuman- mathematician, Margaret Mead - anthropologist, Theodore Kaczynski ( Unabomber ) , Timothy Leary - psychologist, Nikola Tesla - scientist, Richard Stallman - software freedom activist and programmer, Hannah Arendt - political theorist. Other cards present intelligence agencies, drugs, LSD, hippie community, develop of Internet, movements, important historical events like Macy Conferences.

She also made five maps, historical diagrams which function as the key to the project and which show how we can fit cards into a bigger picture.

The body of she's art is developing of cybernetics, history of Internet, interconnected histories of the counterculture. Main theme of her work is control - social, technological, medial. The way in which she has developed and still do that through new stuffs like electronic ID cards or biometric passport. We are like in a some closed place and Big Brother watch us and make the moves.

Within the exhibition, the cards are presented in a big form. You can play with them and travel through the past, present and future, learn about different thinking, events, movements, persons. In that way you can make bigger picture about the world.

Do a reading with the cards, deal them and open your mind to what emerges.