Iris Häussler was born in Germany and lives in Canada since 2001. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and has exhibited widely throughout Europe. She is best known for her off-site installations in which she constructs fictitious personae through the material environment they live in. Locations have included rented apartments (Ou topos, 1989; Ou topos, 1990; Mneme, 1996; Monopati, 2000), hotel rooms (Propolis, 1993), an entire residential house in downtown Toronto for The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach, 2006, and a major intervention into the Art Gallery of Ontario with He Named Her Amber, 2008, curated by David Moos. Häussler's interest lies in the range of reactions of her protagonists to their life circumstances; Mark Kingwell has coined the term "haptic conceptual" for these narrative encounters. http://haeussler.ca