Uta Barth: Literal Photography, Q+A With Uta Barth

Uta Barth’s recent works are photographs at their most literal: pictures of light. All the images in the series “…and to draw a bright white line with light” (all work 2011), wrapped along three walls of 1301PE’s upstairs space, share the horizon of a windowsill, which is intersected periodically by the irregular curvature of light across a curtain. Depending on the time they were captured and Barth’s manipulation of the fabric’s slackness, the light’s form varies from slender strands to wide swathes spilling through its gauzy texture. These renderings of interiors emphasize optics as they invoke a slow-moving process of looking.