My head submerged into basil., 2016 – ongoing

The title comes from Horvitz’s artist book published after his work “Nostalgia” (2018–ongoing), which comprises the artist’s personal digital archive– made with various digital cameras since the early 2000s– of quotidian snapshots documenting his life. Each image was projected for one minute for the duration of the exhibition before being permanently erased. The title refers to Hollis Frampton’s film “Nostalgia” (1971).

The image-less book “Nostalgia” remembers these irrevocably deleted moments through pages containing the filenames and dates of the deleted photos, each with a description of what was once depicted. Horvitz evokes with the simplicity of these descriptions what he describes as a world “over-inundated and amassed with photographs (mostly digital) and with eroded attention spans,” choosing instead to hold on to the emotional remnants of an endless stream of images.