Dedicated to the Unknown is the first solo exhibition by artist Susan Hiller since her passing in 2019. With a multimedia practice extending over five decades, Hiller's unique body of art materialised in many forms, including experimental group investigations in the 1970s, painting, photography, sculpture, and groundbreaking audiovisual installations.
Hiller was committed to investigating our culture's ambivalent fascination with things that lie outside the scope of normal, everyday comprehension. The selected works explore ideas considered alternative or esoteric, marginalised, or disregarded: extrasensory perception; beliefs in mystical powers; the significance of dreams; practices of automatic writing; and collective experiences of subconscious, unconscious, and paranormal activity.
The work's power does not lie in either advocating for, or denying the truth of such phenomena, but rather presents the existence of such practices, beliefs, and experiences as a 'social fact', excavating hidden aspects of culture to reveal there is something mysterious beneath the surface of what at first seems easy to understand; life is full of unknowns.