PAST EXHIBITIONS:

SUSA TEMPLIN 

Opening Reception Tuesday, March 26, 2002 6 - 9 PM

Irena Popiashvili and Marisa Newman of SUITE 106 are pleased to announce German artist Susa Templin’s first solo exhibition in New York. Templin’s photographs deal with transforming city architecture into imaginary urban landscape. She accomplishes this feat in both her collages and installations. By inserting imaginary aquatic billboards between skyscrapers in photomontages or by wrapping facades such as the Goethe Institute in DC and the Pavilion at the Expo 2000 in Hannover, Templin changes the visual and actual reality of her surrounding space.

For this exhibition, Susa Templin reworks the gallery’s ‘white cube’ designed by Nicholas & Thomas de Monchaux. The cube becomes a playground for yet another transformation. Templin already laminated the gallery’s windows for its inaugural exhibition, with images of pine trees and grasses. Working with both these windows and the gallery’s unusual architecture, she creates a verdant forest labyrinth similar to the European topiary mazes whose paths lead to a view of Chelsea, a shadowy figure and blades of grass.

Susa Templin is in a concurrent group exhibition entitled Lichtspur (Traces of Light) at the Museum Für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt opening on April 13, 2002. The show will also include works by James Turrell, Joseph Kosuth and Jenny Holzer. She has had solo projects at Folkwang-Museum, Essen curated by Necmi Soenmez (catalog), Biennale de l’Image Paris 98 (catalog) and Flakk, or That Extraordinary Sensation of Being Abroad Even When at Home, curated by Andrea Kroksnes at the NordensHus, Rejkjavik (catalog).