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DiaporamaThe Past is Another Country 03
Contemporary Conceptual Art
2015
29.0 x 21.0 cm
vlatka horvat (1974 –)
Explore Croatian artist Vlatka Horvat's diverse work: sculpture, installation & more. Represented Croatia at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Discover her unique artistic vision.
The series “The Past Is Another Country” consists of Vlatka Horvat’s interventions into historical family photographs taken in socialist Yugoslavia during the 1960s and 1970s. The artist crops, folds, and displaces images of her mother in these photographs in order to present them in new spatial and environmental situations and establish new relationships among photographic space, setting, and the figure itself. Presenting archival and historical documents in a fragmented and restructured manner, Horvat foregrounds the illusive character of individual and social memory. In this series, the artist creates gaps and dislocations that refer to the obliteration, negation, substitution, and transformation of memories, events, and documents out of the need to manipulate and construct a coherent and continuous narrative, thus further complicating the possibilities of a historical image.
About this artwork
- Title: The Past is Another Country 03
- Artist: vlatka horvat
- Year: 2015
- Original dimensions: 29.0 x 21.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Movement: Contemporary Conceptual Art
- Creative period: Contemporary
- Main color: White
- Keywords: fragmented images , historical photos , abstract painting
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