News from 24.4.2024. Personal newspaper archive., 2024
mixed media on card
41.5 x 31 (card only) / 77 cm (incl the hanging elements)

in By the Means at Hand, Vlatka Horvat's project for the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

A ladder out of potato and onion bag;
demonstration banners from fights for land and against violence and death.
A Lebensmittelportionen in Kara Tepe refugee camp: ein Kilo Tomaten,
Zwiebel, zwei Kilo Reis, zwei Kilo Nudeln.
Golden letters spelling “DEMOCRATIC STATE” out of rescue blanket,
blown away. Snippets from the most popular newspapers in Germany and Slovakia
in a ouroboros shape;
handwritten notes;
Pandora's box with the last thing left of HOPE,
a carnival mask;
my room made out of an amazon box;
and behind walls, not sufficiently burnt army cloth;
my two working desks called Rice and Race.
Through my window on the eighth floor,
through lavender – not a flower but AI – I see
burnt police cars
and a girl with glasses with an eye of wild bear.

Photo 5,9: Vlatka Horvat
Courtesy Vlatka Horvat: By the Means at Hand – Croatian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale