Seductive Exacting RealismIrena Haiduk

Irena Haiduks dual-exhibition at the 14th Istanbul Biennal and the Renaissance Society, Seductive Exacting Realism by Marcel Proust 12, is a stand-in for a missing volume in Prousts collected works. The 13-volume edition published in Yugoslavia in 1967, with its elegant translation from the French by poet Tin Ujevic, was highly valued by the intelligensia and often stolen and sold on the black market during the Bosnian civil war. Haiduks exhibit features a set that was missing Volume 12 that was seized by local police in 1995 and acquired at public auction in 2014. Presented along with video and taped interviews investigating the dangerous journeys taken in revolutions, the project suggests parallels for artists. The catalog includes installation shots, an interview by Solveig vsteb, writings by Ivo Andric, Hannah Feldman, Monika Szewczyk and Marina Vishmidt on artist journeys into revolution.

Titre original : Seductive Exacting Realism