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<br /> UNC art professor's `Heterotopias' exhibit opens at
<br /> Horace Williams House
<br /> Quoted from The Daily Tar Heel
<br /> When UNC art professor Elin O'Hara Slavick isn't taking photographs, she makes collages — a
<br /> hobby she has had since childhood. Now, she has crafted hundreds of them, and they are being
<br /> exhibited for the first time at the Horace Williams House. The exhibit, which opened Sunday, is
<br /> called "Heterotopias," — a term coined by philosopher Michel Foucault — meaning spaces that
<br /> exist in both physical and mental realms. It features the collages by Slavick, who is the first
<br /> current art professor to be exhibited in the Horace Williams House. See the exhibit Time: 10
<br /> a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; through March 28 Location: Horace Williams House, 610
<br /> E. Rosemary St. "We are happy and honored to have her showing with us," said Tama
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<br /> "It is the first show in what we hope to be a series of educational shows of professors from UNC,
<br /> as we are trying to establish a connection between Preservation Chapel Hill and the art
<br /> department." Hochbaum proposed featuring Slavick's works in the house's 2014 series during a
<br /> committee meeting last year. "She is a beloved teacher at UNC — she has been there for 20
<br /> years, and she exhibits all over the world," Hochbaum said. "It's a logical choice for us to
<br /> choose her, besides her being a personal favorite of mine." Slavick is a professional
<br /> photographer whose works have been exhibited globally. She has published two books,
<br /> including one that documented places around the world that America has bombed in the past.
<br /> This will be the first time she is showing her personal collection of collages. "I have been making
<br /> collages since I was a kid," Slavick said. "I have hundreds of them, but I've never really shown
<br /> any of them before." Hochbaum and Slavick went through her books of collages before the
<br /> exhibition to choose more than 60 pieces for the exhibition. She said each collage has a theme
<br /> of its own — portraying war, childhood, nostalgia, marriage, history — and many are political in
<br /> nature. "There's one where I show a woman working somewhere in Africa, sowing in the field
<br /> that I put over with some writing paper from Asia, and it is glued on top of a photograph that I
<br /> took in the countryside of France," Slavick said. "The regions are from all over the world, so it's
<br /> kind of a global economic statement." She said she chose the theme of heterotopia because it
<br /> resonates with the nature of collages. "In my understanding, it's a term about a space that exists
<br /> that contains lots of other spaces," she said. "It's like a hyperlink in an email where you click on
<br /> it at your computer in Chapel Hill, but you're looking at a report in Tunisia — it's how we all
<br /> experience the world now." Nerys Levy, also co-chairwoman of the art committee, said this
<br /> exhibition is thought-provoking and allows viewers to gain insight into a great artist's thought
<br /> process. "Her selection of collages shows how she is willing to go beyond the call of what
<br /> people assemble," Levy said. "It makes people uncomfortable because she tries to seek truth
<br /> through her art — you have to constantly explore and digest it." arts @dailytarheel.com
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