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Uta Barth: nowhere near

By: Uta Barth  

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Containing selections from a project in three parts-shown concurrently in Los Angeles, New York, and Stockholm-Nowhere Near exists as a sort of cinema in flux, a photographic investigation into perception and time that resists any will-to-narrate. Presented in mainly in diptychs and triptychs of precisely uniform dimension, every picture here features essentially the same subject-a large window in the artist's home with a view overlooking her yard. Some images focus on the view through the window: into the yard, at a tree, or off into the distance. Others are focused on the window itself or some component thereof: rain streaks, fingerprints, dust. Still others reflect the interior of the space. The sum effect is one of displacement-of the artist/viewer relationship, of the senses, and of subjectivity itself.

Publisher: Barth Studios

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Uta Barth's Genius of the Unconscious - This book is the first of three in a series (the second, 'and of time...' recently published with the J. Paul Getty Museuem in Los Angeles). Barth's subject is the obviousness of the unconscious. By creating photographs of objects that are - for her, at least, banal - she creates a context in which one might find a more meaningful level of discourse about the subject. In these photographs of windows in her home (and their views) she produces a series that presses the viewer to reconsider the very nature of a 'portal'. That the photographs are very beautiful in themselves only furthers the impression of a dream-state. Within them one reconsiders one's own conscious reaction in light of hers, thus bridging - emotionally - a path to unconscious perception. Jan Tumlir's essay provides the context for the work in a clear, concise prose, reminding the reader of Barth's philosophical importance, as well as her artistic value. A highly recommended book by one of the most innovative artists working today.

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