BATIA SUTER - CLOUD SERVICE

BATIA SUTER
CLOUD SERVICE

Published by Roma Publications/Printed Matter, 2019
Book size 28.5 x 19.5 cm
Pages 104
Printed on magazine paper
Softcover


"Cloud service" by Batia Suter were published in 2019 for her exhibition in New York. The series is primarily interested in the visual dialogue that emerges with the simple act of placing images in new relations to one another. Drawing from her vast personal library of natural history reference books, encyclopaedias, and other flea market finds, Suter assembles a mix of “non-art” images, adapted and reoriented in intuitive and often profound ways. The set of appropriate images comprising this book is a monographic index of clouds and cloud-suggestive forms. Placed in the right sequence, these images resonate in new and complex ways, manipulate each other, and take on new depths of meaning with a sort of synaptic leap.

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Batia Suter’s “Cloud Service” was published in 2019 for her New York exhibition. The series is primarily concerned with the visual dialogue that emerges from simply placing images in new relationships with one another. Drawing from her vast personal library of natural history reference books, encyclopedias, and other flea market finds, Suter assembles a hodgepodge of “non-art” images, adapted and repurposed in intuitive and often profound ways. The set of appropriated images that make up this book is a monographic index of clouds and cloud-like shapes. Placed in the right order, these images resonate in new and complex ways, manipulating one another and taking on new depths of meaning with a kind of synaptic leap.