Susi Jirkuff
dal 28/6/2012 al 17/8/2012
Segnalato da
28/6/2012
Susi Jirkuff
Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
Rainy Days. The exhibition features an intimate parallel universe beyond the media hype. Jirkuff filtered the flood of information and images she encountered in newspapers, on television, and on the I nternet so as to utilise her impressions for her own purposes.
Curated by Sandro Droschl
I n the exhibition Rainy Days, Susi Jirkuff presents an intimate parallel universe beyond the
media hype. Over a two-year process, Jirkuff filtered the flood of information and images
she encountered in newspapers, on television, and on the I nternet so as to utilise her
impressions for her own purposes. Jirkuff forces a “hole” into the reality transported by the
media, thus making visible an unseen, assumedly non-present everyday world. I n the
process, Jirkuff subverts the mechanisms of the mass media by translating its images into
drawings, into personal moments; she animates these and feeds the resulting videos and
installations back into the media context.
I n three apartment-like cinematic settings, the protagonists – M r. A., an artist in a rather
bad mood, his neighbour The Bitch, and the curator M r. C. – are declaring their
sentimental microcosmos to be a general sentiment within society. Touring through the
exhibition, a parallel narration develops between the figures – at times seeming to reflect a
parable of the art scene – who ultimately fail to transcend their own private world in their
dialogue. Rain patters onto the windows and evokes a sentimental feeling, a blues that Susi
Jirkuff makes resonate in her image-world.
Image: Susi Jirkuff, Still aus The Bitch, 2011
Contact Helga Droschl
key@medienturm.at
Tel: +43/(0)316-740084, +43/(0) 664.3935718
Press talk 29.6.201 2, 9 a.m.
Opening 29.6.201 2, 7 p.m.
Artist talk: 25.7.201 2, 6 p.m. with Eva M aria Stadler
Kunstverein Medienturm
Josefigasse 1 - 8020 Graz
Tue – Sat 1 0 a.m. – 1 p.m., Wed – Fri 3 – 6 p.m.