Vesna Pavlović, assistant professor of art, will open Search for Landscapes, her first solo exhibition at Zeitgeist Gallery, from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2.
The exhibition will feature her ongoing project “Search for Landscapes,” shown as a photographic installation at Untitled, the 12th Istanbul Biennial in 2011, along with several new works.
Pavlović’s work questions the medium of photography and its “expanded” field of operation. Her projects develop as anthropological studies, analyzing different cultures and their visual representations through particular phenomena. History, identity, issues of taste, desire and expectation, set in different contexts, are prevailing themes in her work. Either presented as photographic prints or as projected images within an installation, the pieces confront photographic representation and attempt to reveal the layers constituting the image.
Search for Landscapes develops around a group of found vintage slides that depict one American family’s travels around the world during the 1960s through 1980s. This era coincided with a period of American mobility and freedom of travel to the world’s exotic locations and well-known pilgrimage sites.
While looking into the materiality and physicality of these objects, Pavlović developed an interest in slides as a first level of representation of tourist sites, a direct positive, and an object.
Zeitgeist Gallery is located at 1819 21st Ave. S. in Hillsboro Village. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday.
First Thursday evening art receptions are produced in conjunction with the Hillsboro Village Merchants Association Art Walk. For more information, contact Janice Zeitlin at (615) 256-4805 or visit the gallery’s website.
Contact: Vesna Pavlović, (615) 322-8724
vesna.pavlovic@vanerbilt.edu