Slavica Perkovic Livres

Die Arbeit von Slavica Perkovic dreht sich meist um das Zusammentreffen von Ereignissen ihres Lebens mit erfundenen oder angeeigneten Figuren und Geschichten. Angeregt von ihrer Begeisterung für Hitchcocks Film und einem längeren Aufenthalt in San Francisco begann sie 1995 ihr Vertigo-Projekt. Die Künstlerin suchte die originalen Drehorte auf und drehte ein Video, für das sie Elemente des Films ihrer eigenen Geschichte entsprechend rekonstruierte. Slavica Perkovic's work has always thematized the confounding of events in her life with imagined or projected characters and scenarios. The Vertigo project began in 1995, inspired by the artist’s passion for Hitchcock's film and a lengthy stay in San Francisco. Perkovic visited most of the locations in Vertigo and started to make a video reconstructing elements from the film in terms with her own story.

When Slavica Perkovic began photographing the six-year-old Nika, she knew a long-term collaboration had begun. Perkovic has previously made two small artist’s books of Nika as a child, and the present book explores Nika’s life from the age of six to eighteen. Nika Forever is a visual lecture of a child coming of age, intimate yet not voyeuristic, and coloured by Perkovic’s own reminiscences of childhood. Slavica Perkovic was born in Zagreb, Croatia, and studied art history and experimental cinema at the École de Louvre and the University of Paris VIII. Perkovic has exhibited internationally and her work is held in such institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Fotomuseum Winterthur. Her books include Stories of Desire and Power (1995) and Betty, Kim, Irena, Slavica (2001).