Croatian artist Sanja Ivekovic as a feminist, activist, and video pioneer will be introduced in MOMA in New York from December 18, 2011–March 26, 2012. The museum covers 40 years of her work, from the early 1970s when artists broke free from mainstream institutional settings, laying the ground for a form of praxis antipodal to official art, till a contemporary recent works. Part of the generation known as the Nova Umjetnička Praksa (New Art Practice), Iveković produced works of cross-cultural resonance that range from conceptual photomontages to video and performance.
As the culturenet.hr informs “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.”
“(…) 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.”
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