01/06/2026
Batia Suter - 'Yard'
2015, edition of 50 copies numbered and signed, screenprint on 250 gsm white uncoated paper, 100x140 cm.
In Yard, Batia Suter constructs a layered image in which the recurring motif of marine flora intertwines with references to the monumental architecture of Rome, evoking forms reminiscent of the Pantheon and St. Peter’s Basilica. Drawn from different visual and temporal contexts, these elements are reassembled within a single pictorial field through a process of montage that suspends their original meanings and activates new possibilities of interpretation.
The seascapes, conceptually oriented toward the Tiber River, establish a symbolic connection between the river and the city, between the natural world and the historical and architectural realm. Through this continual slippage between water, vegetation, and built structure, the image relinquishes any descriptive function and becomes a mental landscape, where forms behave as hybrid, almost totemic presences.
Suter’s method, grounded in the transformation and recontextualization of images, gives rise to a dreamlike and unstable space governed by an internal logic rather than a narrative one. Removed from their documentary origins, the images acquire a new “immunogenicity,” responding to one another and generating a field of visual tensions in which meaning remains open, fluid, and in a constant state of
Produced for the exhibition Yes Yes Yes Alternative Press 1966-1977 from Provo to Punk.
Available at www.colli-independent.com
