Lost Art
Fototeka (Projection Still III), Archival pigment print, 2015
date:
September 5 - October 31, 2015
Opening reception September 5, 6-9pm
reception October 3, 6-9pm
slide show October 10, 6-8pm RSVP
slide lecture (Morna O'Neill) October 29, 6pm
artist:
Vesna Pavlović's Lost Art will be Pavlović’s second solo show with the gallery. Lost Art continues Pavlović’s exploration of archives as repositories for personal, social, and institutional memory. In this show, Pavlović transforms visual media from various sources into works of art. The source images include discarded slides from university libraries, photography acquired from the Museum of Yugoslav History, and video stills of the birthday event of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito (an event in which the artist participated as a designated Tito’s pioneer). These works explore the materiality of obsolescent media, and their evolving relationship with memory in contemporary culture and political psychology.
On Saturday, October 10 (6-8pm,) Zeitgeist Gallery invites members of the community to bring, project, and share their personal collections of slide photography in the gallery. Recently, there has been a cultural shift away from slides as a mode of sharing images, perhaps because of the bulky nature of the technology. From academic art departments to personal collections, slides are often unused or abandoned. This is an opportunity to re-activate old technology in an environment of examination and introduction.
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