In one of her works, J-Street Project, a montage developed from 2002 to 2005, she successfully reverberated the often forgotten struggle of Jews in Nazi Germany by collecting 303 street names that still bear Jewishness in them. Hiller was influenced by
conceptual art, where concepts and ideas take precedence over aesthetics.
« I think it’s extremely hard to keep innovating, if you like, in your own terms, whatever innovating means, when you know people liked the last thing you did more than what you’re going to do. »
Susan Hiller
She acknowledged influence of
minimalism and
surrealism in her works. She had used myriad of objects and presentation styles, including video, audio, photography, writing, and other artifacts, to express her art. Susan Hiller dealt
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In one of her works, J-Street Project, a montage developed from 2002 to 2005, she successfully reverberated the often forgotten struggle of Jews in Nazi Germany by collecting 303 street names that still bear Jewishness in them. Hiller was influenced by
conceptual art, where concepts and ideas take precedence over aesthetics.
« I think it’s extremely hard to keep innovating, if you like, in your own terms, whatever innovating means, when you know people liked the last thing you did more than what you’re going to do. »
Susan Hiller
She acknowledged influence of
minimalism and
surrealism in her works. She had used myriad of objects and presentation styles, including video, audio, photography, writing, and other artifacts, to express her art. Susan Hiller dealt with ideas such as near-death experience, UFO, paranormal power, ghost, and dream. In her 2004 work Clinic she incorporated near-death experience of 200 people who believed they came back from the grip of death. By exposing such subject matters, in her own words, she wanted to "relinquish factuality for fantasy." (
Artist website)
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