Artist Vesna Pavlovic to speak on campus March 3 as guest of WWU Art Department

Western Washington University’s Department of Art will host a guest lecture by artist Vesna Pavlovic titled “On Photography’s Expanded Field” at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 3, in Communications Facility Room 105 on the WWU campus.

The event is free and open to the public.

Referencing George Baker’s essay from 2005, “Photography’s Expanded Field,” Pavlovic will discuss her work as a contemporary photographer who constantly questions the medium’s language.

Pavlovic’s projects develop as anthropological studies, analyzing different cultures and their visual representations through particular phenomena. She is interested in the experience of history and the changes it brings to society and culture. Issues of taste, desire and expectation, the friction of performance, set in different contexts, are prevailing themes in her work. The shifting boundaries of contemporary public and private spaces are an instance of these themes. Either presented as a photographic print, or as a projected image within installation, the pieces confront photographic representation, and attempt to reveal the layers constituting the image.

Pavlovic is an assistant professor of Art at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. She received her master’s degree in Fine Arts from Columbia University, and her bachelor’s in cinematography at the University of Belgrade in Serbia. She has had numerable solo and group exhibitions worldwide, with recent solo projects at Lawrimore Project Gallery in Seattle, G Fine Art in Washington, D.C., and has recently been included in traveling group exhibitions in Austria, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands, and Serbia and Montenegro among many others.

For more information, contact Associate Professor Cara Jaye in the WWU Department of Art at cara.jaye@wwu.edu or (360) 650-3739.