Sanja Ivekovic
18 December 2011 - 26 March 2012
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Personal Cuts. 1982
Video (black and white and color, sound), 3:40 min.
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SANJA IVEKOVIC
Sweet Violence
18 December 2011 – 26 March 2012
The first museum exhibition in the United States of the work of Sanja
Iveković (b. 1949, Zagreb) covers four decades of the artist's
remarkable career. A feminist, activist, and video pioneer, Iveković
came of age in the early 1970s during the period known as the Croatian
Spring, when artists broke free from mainstream institutional settings,
laying the ground for a form of praxis antipodal to official art. Part
of the generation known as the Nova Umjetnička Praska (New Art
Practice), Iveković produced works of cross-cultural resonance that
range from conceptual photomontages to video and performance.
This exhibition brings together a historic group of single-channel
videos and media installations, including Sweet Violence (1974),
Personal Cuts (1982), Practice Makes a Master (1982/2009), General Alert
(Soap Opera) (1995), and Rohrbach Living Memorial (2005). Among the 100
photomontages featured in the exhibition is Iveković's celebrated
series Double Life (1975–76), for which the artist juxtaposed pictures
of herself culled from her private albums with commercial ads clipped
from the pages of women's magazines.
While in the 1970s Iveković probed the persuasive qualities of mass
media and its identity-forging potential, after 1990—following the fall
of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the birth of a
new nation—she focused on the transformation of reality from socialist
to post-socialist political systems. Iveković offers a fascinating view
into the official politics of power, gender roles, and the paradoxes
inherent in society's collective memory. The exhibition will be
accompanied by a major publication.
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