Violent Noon

« He seas the books as the decoder of temporal enclaves, as a password for enciphering and deciphering stories where reality and fiction merge in the experience of the journey. In the same way, Juli Susin’s various journeys to Paraguay gradually traced, not without hazard, the diagram of this exhibition. The nucleus of the work is a psychological test for criminals used in the United States at the end of 1940s. It involves a small red suitcase, bought in a flea market, which opens to release a series of characters who can be placed in different situations and/or scenarios, some being originals from the kit and others that Susin himself has drawn, painted and cut out. The pieces are interchangeable, so that anyone can make his/her own “reconstruction of the events”. From this small Theatrum Mundi, emerges Capitán Pinturas, Bus 31, Time Master, Univers Tekoha, El General, Itá Karú, Akzia Bororo, Le Parfum and many others. Around this nucleus, a clock that sets time adrift, the footprints of invisible beings, the real traces of an imaginary artist and stills from a 1970s’ Czech film which locates the panacea for a terrible ill afflicting the planet in Paraguay. One of the works carries the signature of differents artists, invited by Susin, thus evading limitations of authorship and discipline. The result is a time-exposure of pieces of evidence that act as molecules of memory, under a blinding light that spills out in the violent tropical noon.» 
Adriana Almada, Praguay, 2013