A book: Parallel Encyclopedia, Batia Suter
by Jérôme Dupeyrat
- Author(s)
- Jérôme Dupeyrat
- Publication, year
- Paris : Empire, 2018
- Scope
- 20 Pages, illustrated, 30 cm.
- ISBN
- 9791095991052
Since the end of the 1990s, Batia Suter has been collecting books—second hand for the most part—that she acquires for their iconography, in such a way as to build up an image database that sits on the shelves of her personal library. All of this has become the basic material for an artwork that consists of presenting the images according to a logic of visual editing, providing them with new modalities of appearance and thus new possibilities of interpretation. Parallel Encyclopedia is, at the time of writing, the artist’s most significant work, ongoing since 2004. This text will re-situate Batia Suter’s work within the context of a history of iconographic practices that run through different fields of activities and knowledge, focusing also on the trajectory of the images gathered in Parallel Encyclopedia and the effects of the process of remediation to which they are subjected. Ultimately, it will be a question of drawing a figure of the artist as an “editor” and of studying both the function of Graphic Design in the artist’s work and the place that we can attribute to the artist in the field of Graphic Design..
- Person as subject
- Batia Suter
- Location
- Cabinet 13 - 3: Grafische vormgeving
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