Susan Hiller, Belshazzar’s Feast, 1983–84,
U-matic color videotape, PAL, 20 minutes; 12 C-type photographs cut out
and mounted under perspex, over 12 gouache drawings on acetate sheets,
mounted on wallpaper; overall dimensions variable, each mounted
photograph 20 x 16 1/4".
TATE BRITAIN
LONDON
Through May 15
Curated by Ann GallagherThe
practice developed by UK-based Susan Hiller over the past forty years
has been remarkable for both its diversity of form and its consistency
of focus. In her treatment of objects and phenomena drawn from cultural
and natural sources, she has explored the range of those presumptions,
fantasies, nightmares, and aspirations that shape our shared reality.
Her work reveals a fruitful interplay between contrasting orderings in
the conscious and unconscious mind, and in this career-spanning show of
some forty works—including major audiovisual installations such as Belshazzar’s Feast, 1983–84, and Psi Girls,
1999—supernatural irruptions into the everyday will abound. A
substantial catalogue with contributions from Yve-Alain Bois, Guy Brett,
Alexandra Kokoli, Andrew Wilson, and the curator accompanies the show.
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