Susanna Fritscher
14th Biennale de Lyon, France
16 September – 12 December 2017
The 14th Biennale de Lyon, titled Floating Worlds, opened on 20 September, 2017. Phileas co-produced the exhibition of a new work by the Austrian artist Susanna Fritscher, invited by the biennial’s curator Emma Lavigne, and Director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
Phileas extended this collaboration to include the purchase of three works by the artist for the mumok collection, Vienna.
For the biennial, Fritscher filled one of the three silos at La Sucrière (a converted sugar factory warehouse now serving as one of the biennial’s main venues) with a work that revealed the flows and resonance of the vast industrial volume that hosts it. The installation was composed of propellers producing different sound pitches due to the movement and speed of the air. In the words of the artist: “We hear the measure of the room: the space of the silo is revealed through its intrinsic acoustic properties, the flux and spread of the vibrations.”
Susanna Fritscher was born in Vienna, Austria and currently lives and works in Montreuil, France. Recent solo exhibitions include the Musée des Beaux Arts in Nantes, France (2017); Frac Corse, Corté (2014); Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, France (2014); and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013). Her work has been shown in several group exhibitions including Simple Formes: Contemplating Beauty, curated by Jean de Loisy and Nanjo Fumio, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2015); Formes Simples at Centre Pompidou Metz (2014); and Si j’avais un marteau, by the Musée des Beaux-Arts, le Hangar à Bananes, Nantes, France (2012).
