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Susa Templin: Proposal for Paris Biennale
Here, finally (sorry for the delay I have been very busy) some answer to your fax from last week concerning my work. You have asked for a description of which project I am currently working on and also what kind of work I would propose for the Biennale.
     Well, you have seen my documentation: photo - installations on flat walls. In Paris I would like to go a little further. I would like to work on the wall and also put pieces on the floor...
Lewis Baltz: Text for Paris Biennale Catalog
Trained as a painter and a film maker Susa Templin's allegiance to photography is contingent, "I want to use photography in a different way ... to show what I think, see, feel and wish, even though it is invisible...". "It's important to lose respect for the conventions of the medium ... photography makes it possible to produce many cheap pictures. It's interesting to show a vision or an idea but not to show skill or physical handwork"...