Sanja Iveković
{ Born in 1949, lives and works in Zagreb } Since the early 1970s, Sanja Iveković’s artistic practice has explored and politicized regimes of representation and the ideological positions underlying them from the perspective of a feminist critique. Working in a range of media such as photography, video, installations, performance, actions in public spaces, media or activist projects, at the center of Iveković’s work is an exploration of the politics of image and body and relations between the construction of identity and the media. From her early photography and performance, through to the major collaborative and public projects of recent years, Iveković has retained her preoccupations with the border between the public and private self, mediated visualizations of gender and the political content of privacy. Her work is always realized against the background of a precise analysis of social and political forces that contextualize it within a particular set of circumstances, and at the same time situate it within – and against – overreaching historical narratives. Repetetio est Mater is a reenactment of the artist’s performance in 2000 at the opening of the exhi-
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My sweet little lamb