Batia Suter
Serpent (2018 – 2020)
Batia Suter
Serpent 2018 – 2020
The underlying themes of Batia Suter’s practice are the iconicity of images, their power to provoke an immune reaction and the circumstances in which they take on new associative values. Her work intuitively places old images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and open up new interpretations. With this method, and with
a sensitivity to hidden harmonies and expressive accidents, Batia Suter generates spaces close to the hallucinatory, in which images can communicate by their own logic, in a force field of imaginative metamorphoses. The exhibited images, taken from encyclopaedias, were presented in Some Things Hidden, a group exhibition curated by Nina Folkersma and Charlott Markus about concealment and hiding and the politics of (in)visibility.
Born in Switzerland in 1967, Batia Suter studied at the art academies of Zurich (CH) and Arnhem (NL) from 1990 to 1995. She lives and works in Amsterdam. She produces monumental prints of digitally manipulated found images for specific locations and works on photo animations, image sequences and collages.