Yuko Mohri x David Horvitz Performance | MIAMI ART WEEK

DAVID HORVITZ

David Horvitz was born in Los Angeles, where he still lives and works. He studied at the University of California and at the Waseda University in Tokyo. He also obtained a MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, in 2010. Witty and poetic, the work of David Horvitz meddles with systems of language, time and networks.

Eschewing categorization, his 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.