Edited with text by Jody Graf. Foreword by Ruba Katrib. Poems by Iiu Susiraja.
"Subtle yet incandescent rage shimmers everywhere in Susiraja’s output. It’s just one of the many reasons why her art—so mesmerizing, terrorizing, gnarly, monstrous—is incredibly beautiful." –Alex Jovanovich, Artforum
Over the past 15 years, Iiu Susiraja has taken photographs of herself in domestic settings, most often in her home in Turku, Finland. Simultaneously seductive, abject, stylized and vulnerable, Susiraja’s works are grounded in unabashed yet private performances for the camera. In these stagings, household objects—tablecloths, umbrellas, hot dogs, bananas, treadmills, rubber duckies and dead fish—become co-conspirators in her confrontations with the lens. Situated between the slapstick and the deadpan, Susiraja’s works locate uneasiness in the comfortable, and vice versa. Published on the occasion of the artist's first US museum exhibition, Iiu Susiraja: A style called a dead fish traces the trajectory of Susiraja's practice from her earliest photographs (circa 2007) to the present. The publication also features poems by Susiraja and an essay by curator Jody Graf. Iiu Susiraja (born 1975) earned an MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. She was featured as the cover story for ArtForum’s February 2022 issue. Her recent solo exhibitions include MoMA PS1, Ramiken Gallery, SKMU Museum, KIASMA, Kadel Willborn Gallery, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, PS2 Gallery, VB Photographic Centre, Ramiken Crucible and Fotogalleriet Format. Her work is in public and private collections worldwide, including at the Adam Lindenmann Collection, the University of Chicago, the Rubell Family Collection, the Finnish Museum of Photography collection, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art and the Finnish National Gallery.
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New York Magazine: Vulture
Jerry Saltz
She subverts our notions about domesticity and sexuality, health and beauty, becoming an object of her own debasement and glorification, a vision you cannot look away from.
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Christina Elia
Strange, suggestive and semi-ironic...Instead of heavy-handed commentary, she deploys her signature deadpan.
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Saturday, April 22 at 3:30 PM EST, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents the launch of Iiu Susiraja: A style called a dead fish, published on the occasion of the artist’s solo exhibition at MoMA PS1, on view through September 4, 2023. Pre-order books signed by Iiu Susiraja on artbookstores.com. continue to blog
“Sausage cupid” (2019) is reproduced from Iiu Susiraja: A style called a dead fish, published to accompany the critically acclaimed exhibition on view through September 4, 2023, at MoMA PS1. (The New York Times’ Roberta Smith writes: “These powerful works take aim at a dizzying array of contemporary body image issues, obsessions and taboos, and from different angles, including fat shaming, fitness, obesity, standards of beauty, dysmorphia, self-loathing, self-love and of course sex,” while New York Magazine’s Jerry Saltz calls Susiraja’s self-portraiture “a vision you cannot look away from.” Designed in a small, 6x8-inch format and collecting just under 60 photographs alongside poems by the artist and essays by Jody Graf and Ruba Katrib, this volume is as compelling, unique and enigmatic as its title suggests. continue to blog
“Sausage cupid” (2019) is reproduced from Iiu Susiraja: A style called a dead fish, published to accompany the critically acclaimed exhibition on view through September 4, 2023, at MoMA PS1. (The New York Times’ Roberta Smith writes: “These powerful works take aim at a dizzying array of contemporary body image issues, obsessions and taboos, and from different angles, including fat shaming, fitness, obesity, standards of beauty, dysmorphia, self-loathing, self-love and of course sex,” while New York Magazine’s Jerry Saltz calls Susiraja’s self-portraiture “a vision you cannot look away from.” Designed in a small, 6x8-inch format and collecting just under 60 photographs alongside poems by the artist and essays by Jody Graf and Ruba Katrib, this volume is as compelling, unique and enigmatic as its title suggests. continue to blog
FORMAT: Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 148 pgs / 57 color / 8 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $25.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $36 GBP £22.00 ISBN: 9781636811086 PUBLISHER: MoMA PS1 AVAILABLE: 7/4/2023 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: WORLD
Published by MoMA PS1. Edited with text by Jody Graf. Foreword by Ruba Katrib. Poems by Iiu Susiraja.
"Subtle yet incandescent rage shimmers everywhere in Susiraja’s output. It’s just one of the many reasons why her art—so mesmerizing, terrorizing, gnarly, monstrous—is incredibly beautiful." –Alex Jovanovich, Artforum
Over the past 15 years, Iiu Susiraja has taken photographs of herself in domestic settings, most often in her home in Turku, Finland. Simultaneously seductive, abject, stylized and vulnerable, Susiraja’s works are grounded in unabashed yet private performances for the camera. In these stagings, household objects—tablecloths, umbrellas, hot dogs, bananas, treadmills, rubber duckies and dead fish—become co-conspirators in her confrontations with the lens. Situated between the slapstick and the deadpan, Susiraja’s works locate uneasiness in the comfortable, and vice versa.
Published on the occasion of the artist's first US museum exhibition, Iiu Susiraja: A style called a dead fish traces the trajectory of Susiraja's practice from her earliest photographs (circa 2007) to the present. The publication also features poems by Susiraja and an essay by curator Jody Graf.
Iiu Susiraja (born 1975) earned an MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. She was featured as the cover story for ArtForum’s February 2022 issue. Her recent solo exhibitions include MoMA PS1, Ramiken Gallery, SKMU Museum, KIASMA, Kadel Willborn Gallery, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, PS2 Gallery, VB Photographic Centre, Ramiken Crucible and Fotogalleriet Format. Her work is in public and private collections worldwide, including at the Adam Lindenmann Collection, the University of Chicago, the Rubell Family Collection, the Finnish Museum of Photography collection, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art and the Finnish National Gallery.
