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Pipilotti Rist: Supersubjektiv

Feb 22, 2025 - Sep 14, 2025

Turner Gallery
In a dark room four people look at a large screen displaying a double image of an out-of-focus flower shot close-up.
In a dark room four people look at a large screen displaying a double image of an out-of-focus flower shot close-up.

About the Exhibition

This exhibition focuses on a single artwork by Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962, Grabs, Switzerland; lives and works in Zürich), the 2001 video installation Supersubjektiv.

Rist filmed the video footage featured in Supersubjektiv using a handheld digital camera during a month-long trip to Japan in December 2000. The hallucinatory video, presented in the Turner Gallery as a multichannel installation accompanied by sheepskin seating and an artist-made pillow, offers viewers a dream-like space for contemplation and curiosity. Paired with an ambient electronic soundtrack with lyrics sung in English and Japanese, the artwork examines nature, the built environment, and technology with wide-eyed wonder. Visitors are encouraged to relax and lose track of time as they take in Rist’s audiovisual meditation on longing for connection in our vast, globalized society.

Pipilotti Rist: Supersubjektiv is organized by Jason Foumberg, Daskalopoulos Collection Manager.

Funding

Supersubjektiv is a part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift, a body of over 100 artworks jointly donated to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum by MCA Trustee Dimitris Daskalopoulos in 2022.