Susan Hiller: The J-Street Project

Timothy Taylor Gallery are proud to present an exhibition of new work by influential artist Susan Hiller. The J-Street Project represents a 3-year journey into the heart of contemporary Germany.
 
There are 3003 roads, streets and paths in Germany, whose names refer to a Jewish presence. Susan Hiller has visited all of them over the past three years, filming and taking photographs of these historically evocative places. The J-Streets Project is an interrogation of landscape’s capacity to memorialize.
 
Hiller’s subject matter in these photographs and video is the tracing of an absence, explicitly named on maps and street signs as ‘Judenstrasse’ or ‘Judenweg’. These banal markers invest ordinary German places, inner-city shopping streets, dreamy lanes, anonymous suburbs, and secluded country roads, with an eloquent silence.
 
‘…in their picturesque formulae and discreet subtitles “Judentenberger Strasse, Illmensee,” “Judenweg, Gunzberg,” “Judenpfad, Rockenberg,” and so forth – combine explosively, opening an interpretational chasm. The viewer’s interpolations – memories, hypothesis, leaps of imagination, - cram the images with uncanny resonance.’
-‘Speaking Volumes: Rachel Withers on the Art of Susan Hiller’,
Artforum, Nov 2004
 
The exhibition will include a major wall-based installation, a series of pigment print photographs and a single-screen video projection.
 
The exhibition will be accompanied by a special screening and talk with Susan Hiller, Darian Leader and Jörg Heiser on 11 April, 6.30-8.30pm, presented by Artprojx at the Prince Charles Cinema.