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| Vlatka Horvat |
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| Vlatka Horvat's work seeks to investigate the relationship of lived experience to language, modes of representation, and social/cultural economies of interaction. She is particularly interested in the discomforting or uncertain aspects of lived experience – doubt, stuckness and hesitation, strained or uneasy presence. Through an investigation of various conflicting impulses and obsessive attempts, her work playfully approaches strategies and conditions often deemed negative – frustrations, denials and contradictions, the breakdown of systems, the limits of an activity, transitory states and fleeting conditions, the inadequacies of language and representation. Typically, Horvat's practice combines a systematic, almost rule-based approach with the unstable performative processes of improvisation, repetition, re-doing. Exploiting the tension between her own provisional frameworks and restrictions on the one side, and live play on the other, the projects frequently adopt the form of a catalog, compiling the multiple attempts in a simple image or an action. Spanning a range of media – from photography and video, to works on paper and projects with text – the work often focuses on an encounter between a person and a particular system, state, or physical space. Evident across the different media is a preoccupation with frames – frames as the edges or limits of the visual image and as the boundaries of possibilities in language or other systems; as well as limits and borders of physical spaces and bodies, of objects, boxes, and containers. Drawn to a paradox, Horvat's work often seeks to present disappearances, absences, concealments – the vanishing of traces, the ‘not being there’ while ‘being there’ – resulting in images and documents that are at once comical and unsettling, imbued with fragments, holes, and gaps. Horvat has recently participated in exhibitions including in 2008 at White Columns, New York; Cut Away, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York; Skipping the Page, The Center for Book Arts, New York; in 2007 American Dream Sequence, Jerry Riggs, Miami; Ground Lost, Galerija Nova, Zagreb; Black and White, IBID Projects, London; Vlatka Horvat: Loops, Little Jewel Cinema, Waygood Gallery; Newcastle Upon Tyne and in 2006 in Interplay: Four Emerging New York Artists, Exit Art, New York, NY; Protections, Kunsthaus Graz; Here and Now Real, Not Yet Concrete, Moderna Galerija/Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana. |
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