Solo exhibition
South London Gallery
London - 2007
Looking at the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and focusing on how it may be interpreted in everyday life, Suarez worked with local residents and community groups creating sound and text works through discussions, interviews and music sessions
This new installation at the SLG brings together the film entitled ''The march of the human rights jukebox" and a wall-based work featuring Southwark residents' expressions on human rights alongside the jukebox itself.
Batekmila - Basque worlds exhibition :
Basque Museum - Euskal Museoa - Bilbao - Spain - 2008
Koldo Mitxelena - San Sebastian - Spain - 2007
Le carré - Bayonne - France - 2007
Video installations about the current Basque presence in Buenos Aires and Montevideo following their massive immigration from Europe ( XVII - XX ). See The RÍo Platense I Video Here
Combining road movie, experimental and documentary styles these films depict the Basque cultural presence through historical elements, personal stories and landmarks found in the streets and squares of these capital cities.
Noir
Solo exhibition
The Surgery
London
A surround sound installation inspired by film noir and befitting the space with its origin as a local surgery waiting room, where members of the community remember tales of woe,
Mission Eternity
etoy corporation
Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum - 2007
Burning Man festival - Nevada desert and ISEA festival - 2006
Mission Eternity is an information technology-driven cult of the dead produced and devised by the award winning etoy corporation.
The plan is to install a community of the living and the dead that reconfigures the way information society deals with memory (conservation/loss), time (future/presence/past) and death.
As a temporary corporate agent Isa Suarez created sound files for the sarcophagus
River voices
Solo exhibition in collab with British artist Tracey Bush - Tate Britain London - 2005
An installation about the river Thames following a multimedia project with members of the public in response to the Monet, Whistler & Turner exhibition.
Installation using sound, photography, calligraphy, sunprints and light
à trouble sens
Solo exhibition - Musée d'Art Moderne de Guéthary - Guéthary - France 2003
During her artist residency at the Domaine d'Abbadia (Hendaye, France, 2002) Isa Suarez created a trilogy of installations using sound, light, video, text and domestic objects.
She explored perceptions about illusion and reality through people's lives, nature and urban environnements and local history
Voices of the night
Installation using sound and light
à trouble sens
Solo exhibition - Musée d'Art Moderne de Guéthary - Guéthary - France 2003
Hemengo Itsasturiak (Sailors from here)
Installation using sound and video
à trouble sens
Solo exhibition - Musée d'Art Moderne de Guéthary - France 2003
La vie passe comme la fumée (Life passes by in a smoke)
Installation using sound, salt, a record-player, books and furniture
4 key instructions on how to rob a Swiss bank without getting caught
Hand Luggage - Group show - Project3 Space - Zurich - Switzerland - 2004
Installation using sound and text
Suitcase
Temporary Accommodation /Ella Gibbs
Whitechapel Art Gallery - London - 2001
Installation using sound and domestic objects
A collection of audio recordings from Isa Suarez's travels in Eastern Europe and South America. The sounds are like postcards as they recall places, moments and journeys
' What are we doing? What's happening to us? What needs to be done? I prefer not to '
- In collaboration with Portuguese artist Paula Roush -
Elastic Residence - Whitechapel - London - UK - 2005
A research lab + an installation + live performance
An exhibition about global and local protest with collective input using sound, video, photography, Internet, live-art and performance
Escale à St jean de Luz
(Port of call at St jean de Luz)
Duconténia gallery - St Jean de Luz - France - 2005
A series of installations using sound, video, 3D sculpture and painting
This exhibition is based on the poetic works by Basque writer Aurelia Arkotxa and her research about the Basque sailors and their whaling in Newfoundland (XVI- XVIII)
Ekaitz
Video & sound installation using a projection screen & fish boxes
Argonauta
Installation using sound and a boat created by Bruno Aguerre
Argonauta is made of various materials found on the Basque coast
Ternua
(Newfoundland)
Video & sound installation using a monitor, sand and wood
The Cabin
Video & sound installation (on the other side of the projection screen) using navigation maps and objects, photographs, light, a surveillance screen & camera monitoring the whale's trap & its visitors on the gallery's top floor.
The Whale's trap or The hoop net
Video & sound installation using a monitor, 2 soundtracks, lights, black plastic, fishing tools &Totems
