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Vlatka Horvat
dal 10/5/2011 al 24/6/2011

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Susanne Friedli


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Vlatka Horvat



 
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10/5/2011

Vlatka Horvat

annex14, Bern

By Bending Back. This solo exhibition, which is conceived more as an installation, continues Horvat's intense preoccupation with physical and imaginary space. Photo-collages deal playfully with the presence and absence of the motifs, their link with the context in which they are presented and their significance for the perception of that context. Themes like presence and memory are addressed by means of simple actions like cutting out, folding, relocating and omitting.


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It is a great pleasure for annex 14 to be showing a solo exhibition of works by Vlatka Horvat for the first time in Switzerland. Last year, Horvat took part in the much lauded group exhibition at the gallery entitled “take space for example ...” This solo exhibition, which is conceived more as an installation, continues Vlatka Horvat’s intense preoccupation with physical and imaginary space.

Photo-collages like Out Lined (Figure), 2010, and Out Lined (Tree), 2010, deal playfully with the presence and absence of the motifs, their link with the context in which they are presented and their significance for the perception of that context. Themes like presence and memory are addressed by means of simple actions like cutting out, folding, relocating and omitting. The complex relationship between periphery and centre, social, political and psychological structures and patterns are shifted, sublated or subverted.

The group of Pages (Spread, Extended, Repaired, etc.), 2009, whose starting point are sheets of A4 white paper, deals with possible ways of newly discovering space. The sheets are cut according to self-imposed rules and reassembled in such a way that edge and centre are redefined. They are proces sed into? arranged in? lines that unfold into the real space, thus entering into a dialogue with it.

Such relocations and transformations do not just take place in the individual works. Whole new and surprising perspectives are opened up by minimal interventions into the real space, such as a half chair standing at the wall, Wall Chair with Moss, 2009. In political terms, such new perspectives uncover alternative possibilities of living. The performative practice which has permeated all of Horvat’s works to date allows us to surmise that the question of the relationship between body and space, objects in space, and the question of space itself for each era and society, has to be repeatedly re-negotiated.

Image:
Double Stiched 2, 2011, folded inkjetprint
Double Stiched 4, 2011, folded inkjetprint, stapled
Double Stiched 7, 2011, folded inkjetprint, sewn

For further information and images please contact Susanne Friedli (079 248 98 94) or Elisabeth Gerber (079 574 55 36)

Opening: Wed 11.5.2011, 6 pm

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Suzanne B. Friedli / Elisabeth Gerber Junkerngasse 14/Postfach 586 CH-3000 Bern 8
Opening hours:
Tue - Fr 14-18h, Sat 12-16h

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Vlatka Horvat
dal 10/5/2011 al 24/6/2011

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