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This print is from a series of works which transcribe front pages of international daily newspapers into alchemical drawings. These works redeploy the languages and intentions of alchemy: the transformation of materials and essences and the revealed understanding of the world as a text, as a realm of powers and correspondences which, if properly understood, will allow man to take on transformative power.

Biography
Suzanne Treister (b.1958 London UK) studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London (1978-1981) and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (1981-1982), now based in London having lived in Australia, New York and Berlin. Primarily a painter through the 1980s, Treister was a pioneer in the digital/new media/web based field from the beginning of the 1990s, developing fictional worlds and international collaborative organisations. Treister’s practice deals with notions of identity, history, power and the hallucinatory. Her constructions, described by Art in America as ‘One of the most sustained fantasy trips of contemporary art’, belie a deeper mission: to explore how we make sense of history and the politics of war. Website: http://www.ensemble.va.com.au/Treister/. Recent exhibitions and events (2006/7): HEXEN2039 at CHELSEA space, Warburg Institute, Ognisko Polskie, Science Museum, British Museum, Dana Centre, London; Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne; Skolská 28, Prague; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; New Art Gallery Walsall; City Lights, San Francisco and www.hexen2039.net. Annely Juda Fine Art, London; Tate Britain, London; Basekamp, Philadelphia, USA; FILE RIO festival internacional de linguagem eletrônica, Brazil. Suzanne Treister is represented by Annely Juda Fine Art.

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