Solveig Qu Suess: RED. A LOVE LETTER

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Solveig Qu Suess RED. A Love Letter 16.10.–28.11.2026 Solveig Qu Suess’ video work RED. A Love Letter is a tender approach to the life of her mother. She worked in China in the 1980s as an optical engineer. The starting point of the autoethnographic research is the question of how her story can be told when it remains inaccessible due to a state secrecy agreement. Solveig Qu Suess combines family photographs, images from company archives, recorded conversations, and quiet moments from the shared everyday life of mother and daughter into a fragmentary love letter. The camera becomes an instrument to explore closeness and alienation to the mother as well as questions of one's own identity and diasporic family history. With RED. A Love Letter, the Stadtgalerie Bern presents a solo exhibition by the Swiss-Chinese artist and researcher Solveig Qu Suess. Based on the central video work, she develops a video installation in which documentation and fiction overlap. Letters, contemporary documents, and the staging of light refraction through optical lenses open up multifaceted perspectives on one's own history and its geopolitical entanglements. Qu Suess examines how surveillance, state infrastructures, and technologies of seeing shape what is remembered, told, or remains invisible. - Events Opening Thu, 15.10., 6 pm Figures: Absent, Disparate, Close By Sat/Sun, 17./18.10. 7 pm Screening with films by Valentin Noujaim, Christopher Radcliff, Fiona Tan, Jiajia Zhang, and others, curated by Solveig Qu Suess » more information Tour with Sign Language Interpretation Thu, 5.11. 6 pm » more information Archives of Longing Sun, 29.11., 2-6 pm Workshop and conversation with Solveig Qu Suess and Suvi Rautio » more information