1301PE is pleased to announce its fourth solo exhibition with acclaimed artist Ana Prvački.Prvački’s cross-pollinating approach informs a practice that ranges from works on paper to video,performance and mixed reality. In this exhibition, Prvački debuts a new series of watercolors:tapping into a spontaneous and fluid form of sense-making through image and text. Thetechnique of water-based painting dates to ancient times, and is interwoven into our visual lexiconas a ubiquitous representational tool through a myriad of cultures and art-historical spheresincluding fine art, illustration, and design. The precision of the hand combined with the fluidity andspontaneity of the medium lends itself well to Prvački’s formal and conceptual interest in the fluidtransitions between analogue and digital, tradition and future.

Within the scope of her practice these watercolors often inform her videos and digital projects,honing her ongoing observations and curiosity with subjects such as bees and honey, botany,evolution, eroticism, Paleolithic art, and storytelling. The playful and often humorous paintingscapture the viewer with their seeming naiveté, only to turn on their head and reveal latent urgentthemes of the current moment–themes such as ecology, sexuality, and mental health, to name afew.

Ana Prvački was born in Yugoslavia and lives and works in Berlin. Her solo exhibitions andprojects include the upcoming Gropius Bau, Berlin, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the IsabellaStewart Gardner Museum, Boston; Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Turin; ArtistsSpace, New York; and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore. Her work has been includedin the following group exhibitions: 13th Gwangju Biennial, Korea, the 57th Oktobarski Salon,Belgrade, Serbia, 14th Istanbul Biennial SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms, Istanbul,Turkey 2015, Contour Biennial in Mechelen Belgium 2015, dOCUMENTA 13 2012, SydneyBiennial 2007, Singapore Biennial 2006, the Turin Triennale 2005, and the Bangkok ArtsBiennale in 2020. The Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Chicago Architecture Biennial havecommissioned Prvački’s performances. In 2019 she was the de Young Museum artist inresidence where she created a solo exhibition in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture thatwon the 2020 Webby Award for its use of augmented reality.