Uta Barth’s exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago is called «…and to draw a bright white line with light ». This is how she describes it: “Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees is the title of a biography of Robert Irwin. Long before that it was a line in a Zen text. No words could better describe the intentions and aim of my work throughout my career.” Since the early 1990s, she has focused insistently on visual and photographic perception. Observing the incidental and atmospheric becomes, for Barth, a subject in and of itself. She is less interested in what the camera is pointing at than in guiding the viewer’s attention to the fundamental act of looking.
Through August 14
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60 603
