Eve Sussman is a British-born American artist of film, video, installation, sculpture, and photography. She was educated at

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of Istanbul,

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, and Bennington College. She resides in Brooklyn,

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, where her company, the Rufus Corporation, is based. She visits cultural centers around the world where her exhibitions take place.

Work

Sussman's first solo show was at the

Bronwyn Keenan Gallery Bronwyn Keenan Gallery (1995–2004) was an art gallery located initially at 494 Broadway and finally at #3 Crosby Street, in the SoHo district of New York City. Run by Bronx-born Bronwyn Keenan, the gallery showed emerging artists from the mid t ...

in SoHo in 1997. In 2003 Sussman began working in collaboration with The Rufus Corporation, an international ad hoc ensemble of performers, artists, and musicians. She produced the motion picture and video art pieces ''89 Seconds at Alcázar'' (2004) and ''The Rape of the Sabine Women'' (2007). Sussman translates well known masterworks into her large scale re-enactments. ''89 Seconds at Alcázar'' is a 10-minute, continuously flowing single take that meticulously creates the moments directly before and after the image portrayed by

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in '' Las Meninas'' (1656). It premiered at the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Sussman's ''The Rape of the Sabine Women'' is a video-musical loosely based on the myth of the founding of Rome, inspired by the French neoclassical painter

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's masterpiece, ''The Intervention of the Sabine Women'' (1794-1799). It was shot on location in Greece and Germany. Sussman's 2011 film ''whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir'' follows the observations and surveillance of a geophysicist software writer stuck in a futuristic city. ''Yuri's Office'', published in 2010, is a movie set built by Sussman in cooperation with The Rufus Corporation. The piece is a three-dimensional version of an original photograph taken by Sussman depicting the office of Yuri Gagarin.

Exhibitions

Whiteonwhite-algorithmicnoir by Eve Sussman

Sussman's work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at institutions in Turkey, Austria, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Croatia, France, Poland, and Canada. ''whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir'' and ''Yuri's Office'' were on display from April 24 - September 7, 2015 in the

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in Washington D.C., United States.

References

External links

Interview with Eve Sussman at Artfacts.Net

Still photos from ''89 Seconds at Alcazar''

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- Six episodes of an algorithmic noir, commissioned by

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, as part of its Internet as Material Project {{DEFAULTSORT:Sussman, Eve Robert College alumni 1961 births Living people American artists British artists

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