"At the core of Horowitz's work are the concepts of love and death, images from television that stay with us and define us, these are moments of horror (war, scandal), discomfort (anxiety, humiliating experiences), and pleasure (beauty, fantasy, the sensation of celebrity and its idols)—and they are all perceived in reality and memory through the same pixilated filter."
Klaus Biesenbach
Published on the occasion of the Jonathan Horowitz exhibition at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA, New York, february - September, 2009.
Working in video, sculpture, sound installation, and photography, Jonathan Horowitz (born 1966, lives and works in New York) critically examines the cultures of politics, celebrity, cinema, war, and consumerism, visually and spatially juxtaposing elements from film, television, and the media to reveal connections and breakdowns between these overlapping modes of communication.
