CALL TO A CROW - APPELLE UN CORBEAU, 2023

David Horvitz
Call To A Crow, 2023

Silkscreen prints produced especially for the Biennale Son and co-published by Biennale Son and KaPa Books.
The work also exists as a leporello, co-published by Biennale Son, Edition Taube and KAPA Books.

Guest artist at the first edition of the Biennale, Horvitz proposed a series of short poems inviting us to connect with the environment.

The texts, in English and French, were set in space by graphic designer Romain Iannone. They were displayed on the Valais poster network, on a large billboard in the town center - where EDHEA (Valais School of Design and College of Art) regularly programs graphic and artistic proposals - and in the local press.

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David Horvitz (b. 1982, based in Los Angeles) studied at the University of California and Waseda University in Tokyo before earning an MFA from Bard College in 2010. Influenced by Bas Jan Ader and On Kawara, he poetically explores our relationships to time, language and exchange, through writing, photography, performance, mail art and interventions in digital, natural and social contexts. Winner of the Follow Fluxus - After Fluxus scholarship in Wiesbaden (2020), he has been praised for the playful yet critical spirit of his practice, and for his use of simple, everyday means to express complex ideas. Horvitz describes the ocean as his "workshop": in When the ocean sounds (2020), he transcribed its sounds using the English alphabet to create posters and a flag. Other works include sending cuttings from his Californian garden to Berlin during confinement, and enclosing LA's Air in glass vials, a homage to Duchamp that also evokes the viral threat and smoke of fires.