DAVID HORVITZ, CALL TO A CROW, 2024

CALL TO A CROW- APPELLE UN CORBEAU, 2024

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This leporello presents a collection of short poems by David Horvitz, written for the first Son Biennale (2023). Each
poem is an invitation to connect with the environment, inspired by the Alpine landscape. Phrases such as "Imagine the sound of the
footsteps of someone who is no more", "Imagine the silence emanating from a vanished glacier" or "Call a raven until a
raven calls you back" offer readers a contemplative experience, linking the natural with the poetic.
These texts, in English and French, have been set in space by graphic designer Romain Iannone. They will be distributed on the

The project was also featured on a large billboard in the town center - where EDHEA (École de design et Haute école d'art du Valais) regularly pro-
grams graphic and artistic proposals - as well as in the local press.

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David Horvitz (b. 1982, based in Los Angeles) studied at the University of California and Tokyo's Waseda University before

graduating with an MFA from Bard College in 2010. Influenced by Bas Jan Ader and On Kawara, he poetically explores our re-
lations to time, language and exchange, through writing, photography, performance art, mail art and even

interventions in digital, natural or 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, as well as 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 his sounds using the English alphabet to
create posters and a flag. Other works include sending cuttings from his Californian garden to Berlin during

confinement, or the enclosure of Air de LA in glass vials, a tribute to Duchamp that also evokes viral me-
nace and fire smoke.