Uta Barth (b. 1958, Germany)
Untitled, 2017

“The question for me always is how can I make you aware of your own looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at”. (Uta Barth)

I think, I am aiming for something similar, but would replace “looking” with “sensemaking”. Barth is also brilliant in blurring concepts, as in unsettling relationship between the foreground and the background, for example. The piece above inescapably gets me to wonder “what is it I am looking that” – and that’s the question I want to trigger in my audience, too. I also like Barth’s aesthetics, her variety of minimalism or understatement, photographs of seemingly nothingness that is always somethingness that you have to sort out… her works is more refined and seems more staged in relation to my more spontaneous photography, but I sense affinity that may be worthwhile to explore further…