Photo 2: Pictured in front of Vues d’Amerique du Nord — a nineteenth-century wallpaper manufactured by Zuber & Cie during the July Monarchy. Representing “a future France,” it depicts “scenes of early American life” in Virginia, Niagara Falls, New York, West Point, and Boston Harbor. Having been selected by Jackie Kennedy during a restoration in 1961, the same wallpaper adorns the Diplomatic Room in the White House.
IDP is an ongoing series of videos, performances, and interventions in New York, Toronto, Paris, and elsewhere. Photos, cinemtaography, and documentation by Léa Brosseau, Ashleigh Deosaran, Dylan Shaul, Rand Jarallah, Alexandra Adams, and Andrea DeLuca.
Works © Ivana Dizdar, 2017-present
Ivana Dizdar’s eponymous performance persona is the neoliberal director of Ivana Dizdar Projects (IDP), a commercial gallery franchise expanding through the so-called Global South. Occupying the margin between realism and satire, IDP doubles as an archive of neocolonial rhetoric, imagery, and conduct sourced from speeches and conversations heard and overheard in the spheres of art, business, and politics. In IDP Africa, Dizdar announces her plans to expand to a fictional country in Africa.