Peach on My Head is an exhibition presenting the eponymous comic by the young visual artist and illustrator Nuka Horvat. A personal and sincere confession, wrapped in a veil of symbolism, dealing with childhood traumas of abuse and questioning gender and other rigid systems assigned to the author at birth.
In order to achieve the desired sense of unease and rising tension, the comic uses repetition of words and phrases that are increasingly sinister and depraved. Visually, he uses realism, which doesn’t maintain its distinctness, but blends and changes comprehensible images into incomprehensible ones and creates a controlled chaos.
Nuka Horvat (1997) is studying for a master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, majoring in Illustration. His comics and illustrations were published by the Latvian anthology kuš! (2021) and the Czech newspaper FŮD (2021), and he has also designed and edited many of TransAkcija’s zines.
He has participated in several group exhibitions, such as Fresh Fish: #unchartedwaters (2020), #dobravaba (2021) and #aquarium(2022) at the DobraVaga Gallery, S04E02_CRISOLOGY: an applied approach (2021) at the Media Nox Gallery, and Pencil Tip (2021) at the Kasarna Karin gallery in Prague. He has been featured at DobraVaga as part of the Zine Vitrine programme with his comic book zine Funnel (2020) and at the eMCe Plac gallery with the exhibition Koprene (2022).
Free entry.
Organization: Kino Šiška/DobraVaga.
