2004 – 2011
Everything, 2011
Watercolor on polypropylene, dry mounted on inkjet print
Installation views from Present Future at artissima 18 in Torino
Rhymes With (Doubt / Fear / Hope / Joy / Lust), 2005
Pencil on paper
One of Each, 2005
Collage with self-adhesive inkjet prints on paper
One of Each is series of 12 works on paper at the center of which is an improvised ‘problem-solving game’ of constructing phrases by using a limited number of letters. The starting point for each individual piece in the series is a single full set of letters from the alphabet, and a restriction—a rule that allows only one of each letter to be used in any individual attempt at writing. The phrases formed in this way always contain holes and gaps as the piece continually runs into the problem of needing duplicate letters.
The work functions as an evidence of a playful problem-solving activity, of solutions to an evident “problem,” and a record of the multiple attempts of dealing with the restriction at hand.
ALMOST EN UGH
IN SHORT UP LY
STUPID R LE
LOUSY METH D
The phrases themselves represent a very literal articulation of the conditions behind the activity of which they are a product. The resulting utterances—although fractured and featuring gaping holes—remain readable nonetheless as the viewer is invited to take part in the game of completing and decyphering these verbal puzzles. There is a playful voice that emerges from the pieces, which seems to comment on the nature of the activity and points to the humour and absurdity of the problem-solving game it is involved in.
What Remains, 2008 – 2023
Stamped stack of paper to be taken away
Installation views from White Columns, NYC and Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art, Vodnjan, Croatia
‘What Remains’ consists of a stack of paper, each stamped with a red stamp that says WHAT REMAINS. Visitors are invited to take away a sheet of paper from the top of the pile so the stack that remains in the gallery gradually gets smaller and smaller. Through a certain literalness, the work speaks of the process of slow disappearance and vanishing. The stamped phrase can be read both as a description of what is happening to the gradually shrinking stack over time, a description of the individual sheet of paper that’s been taken away, as well as a truncated question, posed more broadly: a question about presence, about traces – material and immaterial – we leave behind in space and in time, a question about memory, about change, about going forward while looking back.
In Apoteka, ‘What Remains’ additionally draws attention to the storefront gallery’s former function as a pharmacy, inviting the visitors into an encounter with this particular physical space and its history.
What Remains was first shown in 2008 at White Columns in NYC and at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. The stamped stack exhibited in the exhibition Constellations at Apoteka in 2023 is literally the remainder of the much bigger stack exhibited in my solo show at the same gallery in 2014.
Similar to the Experience, 2004
Pencil on tracing paper
75 drawings
Installation views from Based on a True Story at Artists Space, New York
Born to Lead, 2005
Pencil on paper
Mistakes (I, II), 2005
Pencil on paper
Out of Order (I, II), 2005
Collage with self-adhesive inkjet prints on paper
Installation view from Vlatka Horvat: WRONG WAY at Galerija Nova, Zagreb
Something Missing, 2005
Letraset and pencil on paper
