2017
End in Sight, 2017
Giclée print collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
A series of collage works in which the artist cuts parts of the image that contain the horizon and relocates them over lone human figures standing in natural landscapes, connecting the cut horizon lines to their counterpart on the other side of the figure. The new, longer horizon line produced via this procedure is no longer interrupted with the presence of the figure, but rather leaves the figures interrupted, obscured or even blanked out.
Multiplying and extending the land and sky to “repair” the caesura enacted by human presence, End in Sight poses the horizon line as a “replacement” for the eyes; it takes the place of the eyes, rather than being a destination for the eyes. This “takeover” of the landscape upon the human figure further draws attention to the symbiotic relation between the natural setting and living beings inhabiting it, whilst pointing to the problematic aspects of our presence in landscape as well as our “lostness” in it.
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Press:
ArtPyre (link) – Nov 2020: “Vlatka Horvat: Listening to What the Objects Want.” Feature by Ian Pedigo.
DRY Magazine (pdf / pdf text only) – Feb 2018: “Vlatka Horvat: About Hybridization and Hiding Spots.” Feature by Bianca Baroni.
artforum.com (link / pdf) – Dec 2017: Critics’ pick review of Surroundings at Renata Fabbri, Milan by Maria Chiara Valacchi.
ATP Diary (link) – Dec 2017: Interview with Elena Bordignon about Surroundings at Renata Fabbri, Milan (in Italian and English).
Musecontemporanee (link) – Nov 2017: Review of Surroundings at Renata Fabbri, Milan (in Italian) by Leda Lunghi.
