Uta Barth | Musee Magazine
Uta BARTH. Sundial (07.8), 2008. Diptych, mounted color photographs. 30 x 76 inches (overall). 30 x 37 1/2 inches (each). Edition of 6; 2 APs. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
By Wenjie (Demi) Zhao
Uta Barth’s latest exhibition at the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York City is a contemplative exploration of the nature of perception and experience. Barth’s work has always focused on the act of looking and how we construct meaning from visual stimuli. This exhibition consists of two parts: Uta Barth’s most recent work, ... from dawn to dusk on ground floor space, and Barth’s fundamental and exemplary works since 1995 in the upstairs gallery space. Through a series of large-scale paneled photographs, Barth invites the viewer to explore the ways in which our surroundings shape our understanding of the world around us.
One of the most striking works in the exhibition is “Sundial (07.8),” a diptych of two mounted color photographs. Each photograph depicts a corner of a room, where sunlight falls and glass glimmers in shadows, like the texture of a blend of cashmere and crystal, warm and bright.