Susan Hiller
“It's unbelievably believable.”
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UFOs, ghosts, messages from the dead, visitations and unexplained levitation: no, not a date with a scientologist but some of the subjects explored in Susan Hiller’s remarkable exhibition at the Tate Britain.
US born Hiller has been investigating the subconscious and unconscious mind, the supernatural, and strange phenomena for the last forty years. This retrospective pools her key works on the topic culminating in a warren of works that suspend beliefs and blur certainties through a multitude of mediums from photographs to mixed-media installations.
The audio installation Witness (2000) is composed of 400 dangling and flickering speakers in a darkened room. The speakers whisper and stutter out the recordings of first person alien encounters from around the world. And who’s to say they’re lying? With your everyday-senses suppressed, you can’t.
One of Hiller's most powerful and resonant pieces, the J Street Project (2002-05) records all street signs in Germany bearing the word Juden (Jews). It's a deeply evocative, haunting work that is astonishingly powerful in its blandness. Similarly emotive, is the work Monument (1981), featuring a wall-piece made up of 41 photographs of memorial plaques honouring civic heroes who died trying to save the lives of others. The piece invites questions on memory, death, time and heroism.
The collection of works all demonstrate that Hiller has an excellent eye for the unseen and ear for the unheard, and her ambitious multimedia installations invite the viewer to enter that world; they are a testament to curiosity, to the human imagination, to the sub-conscious and to the phenomena it can unearth.
Believably unbelievable,
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