Artist Lecture: David Horvitz

MFA-IA Winter 2024 Lecture Series presents an artist lecture by David Horvitz. Join us upstairs at Holman Arts & Media Center or tune in to the livestream on our Facebook.

Eschewing categorization, David Horvitz’s expansive, nomadic body of work traverses the forms of photographs, artist books, performances, the Internet, mail art, sound, rubber stamps, gastronomy, and natural environments. His work examines questions of distance between places, people and time in order to test the possibilities of appropriating, undermining or even erasing these distances. Using image, text and objects, his works circulate and operate independently of himself, penetrating ever more effectively the intimate sphere. When encountering his works in the postal system, libraries, or the airport lost-and-found services our attention to the infinitesimal, inherent loopholes and alternative logics, and the imaginary comes to the fore. Like lullabies impressed upon our minds, Horvitz deploys art as both objects of contemplation and as viral or systemic tools to affect change on a personal scale. Horvitz makes fictions that insert themselves surreptitiously into the real.