Friday April 26, 9pm
Rosalind Nashashibi: Vivian's Garden (2017)
16mm/Digital, 29:50min
Free, Limited seating
Courtesy LUX

British Palestinian artist Rosalind Nashashibi's 2017 film Vivian's Garden observes Austrian émigré artists Vivian Suter (b. 1949, Buenos Aires) and her mother Elisabeth Wild (b. 1922, Vienna) in their shared home in Panajachel, Guatemala. Nashashibi, who is known for chronicling intimate moments of contemporary life, witnesses the pair's domestic and artistic relationships with people, plants and animals.

Vivian Suter is known for her large-scale loose canvases that she paints in her open-air garden studio. In addition to oils, she works with volcanic minerals, earth, botanical matter and microorganisms from her environment. Suter's work is often exhibited outside, such as in Athens, Greece for documenta 14, where Vivian's Garden premiered.

Suter's practice bears influence on Puerto Rican artist Maru Aponte and her process of plein air painting, which is expressed in her exhibition Salt Stains.