Susanna Flock: Try to change the angle of the sun | 7.2.–1.3.2020

Opening Thursday 6 Feb 6-8pm
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out of touch
1: lacking up-to-date knowledge or information
2: lacking in awareness or sympathy

The phrase “out of touch” or “out of touch with reality” stands for a feeling of incapacity to understand, or to feel/touch something anymore: a symptom that may also describe our current society. In the seemingly dematerializing world, we engage more and more with immaterial and territorially unbound spaces behind mirror-smooth screens, that are not tangibly accessible.

Susanna Flock’s solo exhibition Try to change the angle of the sun brings together works that explore traces that the interweaving of technologies with all aspects of our lives leaves behind. Central work in the exhibition is the video piece I don‘t exist yet, which deals with stand-ins for computer-animated characters.Initially invisible to the viewer, the computer-animated characters only come to life through mathematically simulated textures. As a central motif, Flock sheds light on the ghost costume used in CGI techniques. The invisible constructions of digital effects are dissected to make the body of the seemingly bodiless tangible. Backstage, one still sees inanimate representatives, that only become subjects through digital reworking.

Susanna Flock (b. 1988 in Graz) has graduated from the University of Art and Design Linz (2015) and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2017). In her practice, she exploresthe relationship of the body to its technologically mediated environment and screen culture. She was recently the recipient of the Viktor-Fogarassy-Price (2019), start-scholarship for media arts Austria (2018), a fellowship at Academy Schloss Solitude (2018) and the Crossing Europe Innovative Award – Local Artist (2017). Her previous solo exhibitions include Jedna Dva Tři Gallery (Prague 2019), EKA Galerii (Tallinn 2017), Neue Galerie (Graz 2017) and HDLU (Zagreb 2017).

The exhibition has been kindly supported by Province of Styria – Art and Culture, Austrian Federal Chancellery and the Austrian Embassy Helsinki.