Musée d'Art Contemporain

Eve Sussman

24 May - 08 Sep 2013

whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir (film still), 2009-2011
Eve Sussman • Rufus Corporation
Video, unique programming code, code screen
Indefinite running time
Richard J. Massey Collection, New York
whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir (film still), 2009-2011
Eve Sussman • Rufus Corporation
Video, unique programming code, code screen
Indefinite running time
Richard J. Massey Collection, New York
whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir (film still), 2009-2011
Eve Sussman • Rufus Corporation
Video, unique programming code, code screen
Indefinite running time
Richard J. Massey Collection, New York
whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir (film still), 2009-2011
Eve Sussman • Rufus Corporation
Video, unique programming code, code screen
Indefinite running time
Richard J. Massey Collection, New York
whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir (film still), 2009-2011
Eve Sussman • Rufus Corporation
Video, unique programming code, code screen
Indefinite running time
Richard J. Massey Collection, New York
whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir (film still), 2009-2011
Eve Sussman • Rufus Corporation
Video, unique programming code, code screen
Indefinite running time
Richard J. Massey Collection, New York
Yuri’s Office, 2009
Eve Sussman • Rufus Corporation
Sculptural installation
Collection of the artist
Courtesy Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
Jeff in Yuri’s Office, 2010
Eve Sussman • Monia Lippi
Digital c-print
Collection of the artist
Courtesy Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
Balcony, 2011
Eve Sussman • Simon Lee
Single-channel high definition video, Blu Ray
Running Time: 6 minutes, looping
Carousel, from Where the Future Throws a Shadow over the Land, 2009
Simon Lee
Digital c-print
Collection of the artist
Courtesy Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
Eve Sussman • Rufus Corporation

whiteonwhite

The first solo exhibition in Canada of Brooklyn-based artist Eve Sussman and her collaborative team Rufus Corporation brings together a series of interrelated films and videos, photographs and installations developed on numerous journeys through Russia and Central Asia. The focus of the exhibition is the film installation whiteonwhite: algorithmicnoir, which draws on the radial abstractions and reflections on transcendence of Kasimir Malevich, and the fate of Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin, seen through the lens of science fiction and film noir cinematography. Generated by algorithm, edited in real time and heavily informed by such twentieth-century filmmakers as Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean-Luc Godard and Wim Wenders, whiteonwhite is a fascinating investigation into space and time, utopia and dystopia, fractured narration, train travel and landscapes marked by economic and ecological upheaval.

Curator: Lesley Johnstone
 

Tags: Jean-Luc Godard, Kazimir Malevich, Eve Sussman, Wim Wenders