Since the beginning of her career, photographer Uta Barth explores how subtly light changes as it falls on different surfaces. She documents how time eats away at things and how the human eye perceives the world compared to the camera lens. For nearly 40 years, Barth observes her surroundings out of this experimental curiosity. She is known for her »empty« images, which capture fleeting moments that we usually only register peripherally.
Born in Berlin, she chose Los Angeles as her new home some time ago - where she enjoys a longstanding renown: The ACME Gallery had five solo exhibitions so far (1998,1999,2002,2004,2005), the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1995 one as well. Starting on November 15, the Getty Museum will now dedicate a solo show to her. Under the evocative title Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision, it will exhibit the most influential of her projects. Barth makes her debut with a new multi-part work commissioned by the Getty itself. The exhibition ends on February 19, 2023.
