From Fictional Videogames to Hypothetical Museums of the Future
The RYDER Projects•Sep 12, 2024 — Nov 09, 2024
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Suzanne Treister is a British artist and pioneer in the digital/new media/web based field from the beginning of the 1990s. In her work, fiction is used to create alternative worlds that highlight the strategies with which power mechanisms operate in our lives. She does this through a series of individual projects that usually take several years of work and where, through formats such as interactive software, video, drawing, painting, or watercolor, she analyses alternative belief systems, mechanisms of control and surveillance, and links between new technologies and society.
Each of these projects develops a very precise iconography and narrative. They are worlds in themselves, with various branches, each more surprising than the last. For this exhibition, her first solo show in Spain, Treister presents a journey through several of them, covering a span from the 1990s to today. However, the visionary nature of each of these projects places them in direct contact with the...More
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From Fictional Videogames to Hypothetical Museums of the Future
The RYDER Projects•Sep 12, 2024 — Nov 09, 2024
Press Release
Suzanne Treister is a British artist and pioneer in the digital/new media/web based field from the beginning of the 1990s. In her work, fiction is used to create alternative worlds that highlight the strategies with which power mechanisms operate in our lives. She does this through a series of individual projects that usually take several years of work and where, through formats such as interactive software, video, drawing, painting, or watercolor, she analyses alternative belief systems, mechanisms of control and surveillance, and links between new technologies and society.
Each of these projects develops a very precise iconography and narrative. They are worlds in themselves, with various branches, each more surprising than the last. For this exhibition, her first solo show in Spain, Treister presents a journey through several of them, covering a span from the 1990s to today. However, the visionary nature of each of these projects places them in direct contact with the...More