Opening Reception - Susan Hiller: Altered States

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JACK HEMS Courtesy Lisson Gallery

Susan Hiller, "Rough Dawns II," 2015

(detail), 12 archival pigment prints, each panel 51 x 76 cm; © Susan Hiller, courtesy Lisson Gallery

HAPPENING MAY 23, 2018 AT 6:00 PM TO  10:00 PM

Opening Events for Susan Hiller: Altered States including the following:

6pm Members Preview 7pm A Conversation with Susan Hiller and Helga Pakasaar8pm Public Opening

Members of The Polygon Gallery will have an exclusive opportunity to preview the exhibition, enjoy a glass of wine and cheese, and mingle with other guests starting at 6pm.

Following the preview, internationally acclaimed artist Susan Hiller will join curator Helga Pakasaar for a conversation, which is open to the public at 7pm.

A Public Opening will finish the evening, from 8pm to 10pm.

One of the most influential artists of her generation, Susan Hiller has been an innovator for close to five decades. Comprising landmark video installations and photographs, Altered States focuses on Hiller’s  investigations into dream states, the inexplicable, and our collective unconscious. 

Involving extensive research, Hiller assembles audio and visual artefacts from diverse cultural source material to map popular beliefs. The exhibition includes PSI Girls, movie footage of adolescent girls performing telekinetic feats; Resounding (Infrared), hypnotic visual and audio recordings of mysterious phenomena; and automatic writing, The works in Altered States reflect on how technology and language mediate our perceptions of the world.

Susan Hiller (b. 1940, Tallahassee, Florida) studied film, photography, archaeology and linguistics and then turned to art. Since moving to London, England from the U.S. in the 1960s, she has produced an extensive body of work. She is widely published, and edited the influential 1991 book The Myth of Primitivism: Perspectives on Art.

Hiller has had solo exhibitions in major international museums. Important solo exhibitions include the ICA, London (1986), Tate Liverpool (1996) and Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2007); Baltic, Gateshead; Museu Serralves, Porto (2004), Kunsthalle Basel (2005), Tate Britain, London (2011); Castello di Rivoli, Turin, (2011), and OGR, Turin (2018). She participated in documenta 13 (2012) and documenta 14 (2017). Hiller is represented by Lisson Gallery.