SE Barnet
dal 25/4/2008 al 6/6/2008
Segnalato da
25/4/2008
SE Barnet
De Soto gallery, Los Angeles
One place to another. An exhibition of photography, new media based works, and film. Barnet makes works that begin with open-ended scenarios around collaboration, interaction, and authorship. Her practice integrates the public realm whether in the form of physical landscape, political environment, and/or social community.
De Soto Gallery presents SE Barnet’s One Place To Another, an exhibition of
photography, new media based works, and film. This is Barnet’s first solo exhibition
with de Soto Gallery.
SE Barnet makes works that begin with open-ended scenarios around collaboration,
interaction, and authorship. Her practice integrates the public realm whether in the
form of physical landscape, political environment, and/or social community playing
with the gap between expectation and actuality in an approach that often embraces
error and incongruity.
In the digital age, as opportunities for communication and travel (virtual or
actual) increases on a global scale, so too does our interconnectedness and the
possibility for exchange. In “One Place to Another,” Barnet explores this
interaction based on the premise that the traveler acts as observer. In the position
of tourist even the ordinary is reflected in the light of the unfamiliar.
Using this model of tourism as a mode for looking outside oneself, Barnet explores
the schism between varying conceptions and interpretations. For “Ulster Museum,”
Barnet begins with a photograph that emphasizes the museum’s amalgam of modern and
classical architecture. She then overlays her own digitized drawings on top of the
existing structures as imaginings for a possible extension. Barnet’s act of mark
making in the landscape questions who is doing the looking and points to disjuncture
of ideas over time.
In another work, a two part piece entitled Travel Office, two photographs of a
travel agency are taken from different vantage points, one looking in and one
looking out. The difference in perspectives calls attention to distinction between
inside and outside, here and there. Similarly “In Keen and Quivering Ratio,” a short
film in which the artist alternately points the camera at herself and towards her
own ephemeral observations, is an attempt to capture an internal experience
visually. Through watching herself in the act of looking she attempts to blur the
line between internal and external.
SE Barnet’s work has been exhibited internationally including The Museum of
Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the ICA in London, the American Academy in Rome,
Galerie Christine Koenig in Vienna, and Nederland’s Instituut voor MediaKunst
Montevideo. She has held academic appointments at Otis College of Art and Design,
UCLA, and UC Riverside. She is currently pursuing a PhD in fine art practice at
Kingston University in the UK.
Opening reception: Saturday, April 26, 6 to 8 pm
De Soto Gallery
108 W. 2nd St., Suite 104 - Los Angeles
Gallery hours are Wednesday thru Saturday, noon to 5pm, and by appointment.
Free admission