Eve Sussman is a British-born American artist of film, video, installation, sculpture, and photography. She was educated at Robert College of Istanbul, University of Canterbury, and Bennington College. She resides in Brooklyn, New York, 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 in SoHo in 1997.Roberta Smith (February 21, 2007), Present at an Empire’s Corrupted Birth The New York Times.
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).Eve Sussman: Division of Art/Henry Art Gallery Visiting Artist Lecture Henry Art Gallery. 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 Diego Velázquez 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 Jacques-Louis David's masterpiece, The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1794–1799). It was shot on location in Greece and Germany.The Rape of the Sabine Women - Eve Sussman and The Rufus Corporation, July 6, 2006 - September 24, 2006 Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
Sussman's 2011 film whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir follows the observations and surveillance of a geophysicist software writer stuck in a futuristic city.whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir clips on YouTube
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.
Are The Birds Happy?, created in 2024 in collaboration with Simon Lee and Volkmar Klien, is a smartphone based, participatory performance. The performance is run on SADISS, an app that provides a means for guiding ad-hoc ensembles. Are The Birds Happy? was funded by a Hewlett Foundation 50 Arts Commission and premiered at Gray Area in San Francisco in 2024.
Exhibitions
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 Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C., United States.
See also Tableau vivant
See also Inside the Artist's Studio, Princeton Architectural Press, 2015. ()
References
External links Interview with Eve Sussman at Artfacts.Net Still photos from 89 Seconds at Alcazar whiteonwhite - Six episodes of an algorithmic noir, commissioned by Triple Canopy (online magazine), as part of its Internet as Material Project