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The Black File

Courtesy Nottingham Contemporary
The Black File
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    • The Black File
    • Crni fascikl
  • 1976
  • 6 double-spread collages mounted on paper
  • 21 x 29,7 cm
In her performative montages of fragments from media reality, Sanja Iveković does not produce any “opposing narratives” to the real. Her “meeting points” deal more with the functioning of our experience of the real. The seemingly paradoxical series of images, in which spatial and temporal relationships are incomplete or inverted, withdraw from their protagonists – and thus from us as well – the guarantee of a secure location or a secure identity, be it in a gender-specific, social, geographical or political context. The work entitled "The Black File" confronts everyday missing-person notices from newspapers – containing the name and description of a missing young woman under a photo – with erotic magazine portraits of very young women, whereby the caption includes only a female first name and the age (STEFANIA: 14 ANNI). S.E.