In Frank Horvat’s playful photographs the body’s potential struggles with the arrogant physicality of the space. The work demolishes the common sequence of cause and effect. The presence becomes uncertain and transformed by the effect “pillow book” with a special grain. Also to Belmer’s famous question “Do I need monsters to illustrate human deficiency?” Horvat says no with his visual “Biography”.
The photographer creates vanishing points and phantasmagoria that take the body out of its trajectory. It is the upheaval against the amorphous, that no longer satisfies the humble anthropomorphic aesthetic and its inventories. Nothing more than an apparition, the tool of the flickering presence. And, if necessary, Horvat suggests the existence of a passage that leads from solitude towards the world, and so towards reality. It develops from the organic and from himself an inversion or a reversal of the bodily flows. he is “meaning” above and below by effect of surface.
Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret
Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret is a poet, critic professor at Université de Savoie, in France.
Frank Horvat, Photographic Autobiography
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