Encounters with the Work of Susan Hiller

Susan Hiller’s work was developed in the context of an intense period of critical revaluation and questioning of the efficacy of art in the West, and a questioning of the autonomy of the art object. Some of Hiller’s earliest works, such as Sisters of Menon, were developed from her automatic writing experiments – moving beyond the Surrealists’ experimentation – and are still recognizable in much of her work. Witness finds its subject in what Hiller has described as, ‘the unstable territory where the visible merges with the visionary. For Clinic, Hiller chose a space with high ceilings and huge volume, one that evokes a place between transcendence and the echo of a chilling medicalized world. Hiller’s work recognizes the opacity of what slips past and through the representation of such utterances and the subsequent faltering of a distinction between interior and exterior.

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