IGOR SEVCUK
« Kalle »

Opening : Friday 19th March 2004 from 6pm
Open on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 20th March to 10th April 2004 from 3pm to 7pm.

Native of Bosnia, Igor Sevcuk works on identity and language issues. Settled since 10 years in Netherlands, his video installations, paintings, drawings, poems and photographs reconsider Bosnia and relate uproot in a sensitive work.

During the summer of 2003, Igor Sevcuk followed Utrecht Orchestra through the cities of ex-Yugoslavia, where they performed Bach’s Mass in B Minor. This is the starting point for developing the video “Kalle” as a part of installation for Public>. In this video, the recordings made during these concerts interact with other images shot during the same summer in a more familiar context: an kind of rabid dog, attached in the courtyard, which cannot stop yelling.
The strange behaviour of the dog, the comments of local people and the baroque Bach’s music, compose a particular atmosphere where images and sounds continuously infect each other, where the assertive editing reveals a discomfort. With “Kalle”, Igor Sevcuk questions hidden religious, political and philosophical meanings.

The installation in Public> involve different background images and documents as reflection or addition to the film. Paintings, old photographs, emblems and flags of Dutch and Bosnian political parties give some more direction for the further interpretations of symbolic language used in the film.

Born 1972 in Bosnia, Igor Sevcuk lives and works in Utrecht.

This exhibition is supported by DRAC Ile-de-France, Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, Ambassade du Royaume des Pays-Bas, Institut Néerlandais and Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris.