Uta Barth | Musée Magazine
…and to draw a bright white line with light (11.2), 2011 printed 2021, Uta Barth. Pigment prints, 38 × 56 1/2 in. Getty Museum, 2021.51.1-.2. © Uta Barth
By Gabrielle Keung
Uta Barth’s exhibition titled “Peripheral Vision” at The Getty Centre presents a statement of her central artistic concerns. By zooming in on the illuminated surfaces of various colors and textures, she emphasizes the complementary relationship of light and shadows. By manipulating our sense of depth and playing with camera angles, she makes us reassert our vantage point as viewers and rethink the camera’s relationship to its subjects. By highlighting the vivid contrast between black and white in a picture where intricate and bare branches are set against a foil-like sky, she asserts the richness of monochrome prints. Barth’s works play with light and colors to appeal to our senses, expanding our imagination.