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      Susan Hiller

      Auras and Levitations (Second Edition)

      160 pages | Black & white / Full colour | 110 x 77 mm, Soft cover with foil embossing | 2010 | Edition of 1,500 copies
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Susan Hiller’s artist’s book which pays homage to two images of aspiration, fantasy and sublimation: Yves Klein’s Leap Into The Void, and Marcel Duchamp’s Portrait of Dr. R. Dumouchel. Both embrace the phantasmagorical legacy of modernist art; in the former, the shaman’s defiance of gravity, in the latter, the clairvoyant’s perception of human auras.

In her miniature book, Hiller has assembled images sourced from the internet, all paying indirect homage to these two artists’ gestures. She presents a sequence of levitations, back-to-back with a series of images of auras, so constructing an occult legacy thriving in popular culture, in which the artist’s gesture is reincarnated in the democratic medium of the internet.

Originally published 2008 - Second Edition, 2010


Susan Hillerのアーティストブックは、熱望、ファンタジーそして理想化されたYves Kleinの [Leap Into The Void]/Marcel Duchampの[Dr. R. Dumouchel]のポートレイトというふたつのイメージへ敬意を表する。いずれもモダニストアートの素晴らしいイメージと不調和な並置によって特徴づけられる遺産として取り巻かれているが、前者はシャーマンの反抗における厳粛さであり、後者は人間のオーラを認識する千里眼の人である。

このミニチュアブックで、Hillerはインターネットをソースに似通ったイメージを集め、それらふたりのアーティストのしぐさに対する敬意を表する。
彼女は空中浮揚のシークエンスを展開しているが、その一連のオーラのイメージとはうらはらに、大衆文化では盛んな神秘的遺産としてみせているばかりか、アーティストのしぐさがインターネットの民衆的なメディアのなかで化身する。
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