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Sanja Iveković in New York

Mónica Boixeda New Yorker, Only-Be

A couple of years ago, at a performances festival which took place in Paris, the Croatian artist Sanja Ivekovi?, protagonist of the excellent anthological exhibition ´Sweet Violence´ which can be visited at the MOMA until the 26th of March (http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1148), presented a piece, ´Eva´s Game´, in which she recreated the extremely famous photograph of Julian Wasser taken in 1962 regarding the great anthological exhibition of Marcel Duchamp at the Pasadena Art Museum, which represented the influential and enigmatic French artist, who had allegedly retired decades ago from all artistic production, playing chess with his young friend and future artist and writer Eve Babitz, who facing the ever-smart looking Duchamp, appeared completely naked. Sanja Ivekovi? deconstructed the famous image, a regular practice in her interesting work, recreating the game in a way that it was the woman, herself, who was dressed, in black like Duchamp, while her opponent, the commissioner of the Parisian festival, was completely naked. At the same time that both recreated the game at Pasadena, they recited a dialogue made with the words of an interview given by Eve Babitz herself, whose answers were proffered by Sanja Ivekovi?, placing herself somewhat simultaneously in the place of the two protagonists of the scene, nearly forty years after the original photo. The performance give us many guidelines on the way that Sanja Ivekovi? works with texts and images, as well as the feminist side of her work, always interested to tackle the problem of the role of women in society and in history inside the context of an incisive social and political critic which deals directly with the most controversial subjects of our time... read more