‘choice of no choice’
by Palaroide
Deceptively simple, Uta Barth's photographic works question the traditional functions of pictures and our expectations of them. By photographing in ordinary anonymous places - in simple rooms, city streets, airports and fields - Barth uses what is natural and unstudied to shift attention away from the subject matter, and redirect focus to a consciousness of the processes of perception and the visceral and intellectual pleasures of seeing.
Barth has used photography exclusively in her aesthetic projects, experimenting with depth of field, focus and framing to create photographs that are suggestive rather than descriptive, alluding to places rather than describing them explicitly. Her interiors and landscapes engage the viewer in an almost subliminal way, testing memory, intellect and habitual responses. Narrative subject matter is replaced with visual incident; the ambiguity of the pictures stimulates a profound self-consciousness of the act of looking. Never entirely abstract, landscapes and interiors are made visually ambiguous to spur profound examination of the particular ways we come to expect pictures to affect us.
resolução de ano novo #13 - redirect focus to a consciousness of the processes of perception and the visceral and intellectual pleasures of seeing.
