• 1998
  • Photographic paper
  • Photography
  • Inv. 01FP348

Susanne Themlitz

Panorama – Travel Urge # 07

In Travel Urge, from 1998, Susanne Themlitz constructs a group of unique and unusual atmospheres by way of photography, where the register of a real voyage is mixed up with the imagined. The idea of voyage is present in the artist’s work in many ways. It may begin even at the level of the spectator’s perception, in the manner through which her works cause a rupture with the known or the foreseen, exposing our regard to the strange and the disturbing.

 

This image of an improbable place and geography brings together a landscape, which is, in that aspect, eminently evocative. The photographic veers away from what is likely or recognizable, in order to contemplate a sense of ambiguity and uncertainty. One reckons that the apparently sterile, desert-like or perhaps extra-terrestrial landscape, may in fact be found to be occupied by tiny wandering characters that look as though they were kept in this suspended time and place. The images trigger multiple meanings, transforming themselves into a territory of drift, of escape, of voyage.

 

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November 2011

 

 

TypeValueUnitSection
Height5cm
Width40cm
Height30cm
Width78,7cm
Depth3cm
Typelocation
Typesignature
Typedate
Typetitle
Typeseries n.
TypeAcquisition
Susanne S. D. Themlitz Paradies/Paraíso/Paradise, 1993-2003
Herne, Der Oberb+urgermeister, Flottmann-Hallen, 2004
ISBN:3-934940-12-9
Monografia
Extensão do olhar. Uma antologia visual da Fotografia Portuguesa Contemporânea. Obras da Colecção da Fundação PLMJ
Lisboa, Assírio e Alvim, 2004
Monografia
Um Oceano Inteiro para Nadar
Lisboa, Culturgest, 2000
Catálogo de exposição
Paisagens Transportáveis - Strange Things Happen When You Are Abroad
Cáceres, Galeria Borges & Mallo, 1998
Catálogo de exposição
Paisagens Transportáveis - Strange Things Happen When You Are Abroad
Galeria Bores & Mallo
Curator: Galeria Bores & Mallo
1998 a 1998
Galeria Bores & Mallo, Cáceres
GaleriaBores & Mallo, Cáceres, 1998 (exposição individual).
ARCO 99
Galeria Bores & Mallo
Curator: Galeria Bores & Mallo
1999 a 1999
Galeria Bores & Mallo, Madrid
Um Oceano Inteiro para Nadar
Culturgest
Curator: Culturgest
2000 a 2000
Culturgest, Lisboa
Updated on 23 january 2015

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