Mergers, Removals, Evacuations: Reordering and Reconstituting Image in Collage

My work across different media – performance, video, photography, collage, sculpture, and installation – often deals with the precarious relationship between a human body and a set of objects, space, landscape or built environment. In this paper I will zoom in on a very small and specific area of the work, focusing on the dissolution and discombobulation of the figure as it is enacted and performed in my image based collage works, discussing how collage perform this disassembly, and re-assembly, of body-as-object / body-as-image differently than the photographic works.

A scholarly essay in which Horvat uses their collage works to think through the politics and poetics of collage, placing their figurative works in collage in historical and theoretical frameworks, with a particular focus on collage’s ability to dismantle and re-imagine the body.

A bilingual journal; article published in both English and Croatian