About the work

This is a work from my current project, SURVIVOR (F). SURVIVOR (F) is a hallucinogenic exploration of a future reality in undetermined time and space. Whether manifestations of a survivor of the human race, on earth, in space, on a new planet or parallel universe, or of an artificial superintelligence (ASI), SURVIVOR (F) presents visions of a post-futuristic sublime, charting an existential imagining of potential human/non-human agency/non-agency, of the psychedelic consciousness of SURVIVOR (F). SURVIVOR (F) is a contemporary futuristic alchemical depiction of the universe and beyond.

Date and country of birth

1958, GB

About the artist

Born 1958 London, Suzanne Treister lives and works between London and the French Pyrenees. Graduated from Brighton Polytechnic (1978); St Martins School of Art (1981); and Chelsea School of Art (1982).

Treister was a pioneer in the new media field from the early 1990s, making work about emerging technologies, developing avatars and fictional worlds. Her recent projects include HEXEN 2.0, HFT The Gardener, SURVIVOR (F) and The Escapist Black Hole Spacetime. An ongoing focus of her work is the relationship between new technologies, society, alternative belief systems and the potential futures of humanity.

Selected exhibitions include We Never Sleep, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2020); Yerevan Biennial (2020); Istanbul Biennial (2019); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2019); Busan Biennale (2018); Le voyage à Bordeaux de Suzanne Treister – Histoires parallèles et récits excentriques, CAPC, Bordeaux (2018); Quantica, CCCB, Barcelona (2018); Open Codes, Living in Digital Worlds, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2018); As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics, IMMA, Dublin (2017); alien matter, Transmediale 2017, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2017); You Say You Want a Revolution: Records & Rebels 1966-70, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2017); HFT The Gardener, P.P.O.W., New York (2016); Liverpool Biennial (2016); Bard Hessel Museum, New York (2016); HEXEN 2.0, Fig-2, ICA, London (2015); 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014); and 8th Montréal Biennale (2014). Selected commissions and Awards include, Digital Commission, Serpentine Galleries, London (2019); COLLIDE International Award, CERN Geneva/FACT UK (2018); and The Spaceships of Bordeaux, Public art project, Commande artistique Garonne, Bordeaux (2013-2021).