Vesna Pavlović
Looking for Images
02.09.2013 -30.09.2013
Window (re/production | re/presentation) is pleased to present ‘Looking for Images’, by Vesna Pavlović. The installation will be on view from September 2nd to the 30th. Pavlović describes the work as a photographic transparency consisting of a patchwork of vintage travel slides, woven together through two digital layers. Printed on translucent media and adhered to the façade, the storefront window will serve in this instance as the light-box or viewfinder normally used to inspect these miniscule images.
Looking for Images belongs to Pavlović’s body of work “Search for Landscapes”, a project evolving around a group of found vintage slides, which depict one American family’s travels around the world from 1960s - 80s. The artist acknowledges an initial concern in the material and physical nature of the found objects, followed by a further interest in their cultural associations. “I was…interested in slides as a first level of representation of tourist sites, a direct positive, and an object. The slide technology itself was a product of the American consumer economy. The American tourist with camera is itself an iconic image, one whose era may have passed. Tourist here is both a consumer of places and a producer of images” (Pavlović). This installation calls attention to the abundance of orphaned images that continue to circulate amidst our cultural periphery while simultaneously questioning their shifting function from owner/originator to re-purposer/participant.
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