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The Curtains of Perception

by Erik Wenzel
Uta Barth at The Art Institute of Chicago May 14th, 2011 - August 14th, 2011
Posted 7/11/11

For her eponymous exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, photographer Uta Barth created a new body of work entitled …and to draw a bright white line with light (2011). The photographs depict a wavy line made as light passes through the curtains in the artist’s home. Barth noticed this by chance and realized that by moving the gossamer fabric she could in effect “draw with light,” literalizing the Latin origin of the word photograph. The …and to draw series consists of individual works t... [more]