Trends in Photography and Graphic Design in the 1990's: TRENDS in PHOTOGRAPHY and Exhibition DESIGN: Gérardo SUTER (Mexico)

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Gérardo Suter (1957) has been working as a cultural and scientific photographer for several years. At the same time he developed his own personal work. Since then concepts like time, space, memory, body, territory and history have been constantly present in the different series and projects he has developed. From 1980 to 2000 his photographs were exhibited in Mexico and abroad. He has had more than thirty solo shows and his work has been included in many group exhibitions and collections in several countries.

1995 was a turning point in his career. He began to combine still photography with moving images, and live events that incorporated video projections and sound. The jump from the two-dimensional use of the image to its repositioning in space, was crucial in his work. Architecture began to play a fundamental roll and site-specific pieces became more and more part of his statements. His view has been focused in finding and creating new or different ways of presenting the image to the viewer. After some time, his interest was not only engaged in the use of the images. Virtual space became an extension of the real one and he began to use both in a separate or combined manner to present the images and build his installations.

In 1996 he was commissioned to represent Mexico at the 23rd Biennial of São Paulo in Brazil with a site-specific video and photo installation titled Cartografía.

In 1997, he was included in the Sistema Nacional de Creadores in the field of Visual Arts. He received a grant for four years to develop his work in the field of photography and video installation.
In 1998, he was awarded the Rockefeller-MacArthur Grant for Film/Video/Multimedia to develop ‘TranSitus’, a video installation that took place, both in real and virtual space, all along the USA-Mexico Border.

At the beginning of 1999 a retrospective mid-career exhibition titled ‘Labyrinth of Memory’ was opened simultaneously at the Americas Society Gallery and the Sculpture Center in New York City. Then it traveled to the Mexican Museum in San Francisco.
Today he is working on ‘Zócalo’, a new project that combines historical film fragments and real time video sequences.