Barbara Probst
Murray Guy is very pleased to announce our fifth solo exhibition with Barbara Probst. Please join us for an opening reception with the artist on Saturday 9 November from 6 to 8pm.
In a presentation of works ranging from 2011 to 2013, Probst continues to develop a meta-narrative that captures the complexities of viewing. In Exposure #106, one of her more recent and ambitious works, a simple reach for an apple is dramatized by a sequence of simultaneously occurring actions. The scene of a taxi driving through a crosswalk is a point of focus, as is the other side of that apple, half eaten, corralled by cookie crumbs, teetering clumsily on the edge of the table. Probst uses a radio-controlled shutter release and up to thirteen cameras at one time to reveal the kaleidoscopic nature of any given moment. While orchestrated with tremendous precision, the Exposures retain a candid quality through their attention to the details that are hidden just beyond the line of sight. The way in which the body is abstracted, with close-ups of truncated hands in motion or miniaturized figures in the composition, is comparative to the way in which the viewer must move physically from one image to the next in order to see each Exposure in its entirety. Each work presents a singular moment concurrently relying on its temporal and spatial relation to a viewer in order to do so.
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Murray Guy is very pleased to announce our fifth solo exhibition with Barbara Probst. Please join us for an opening reception with the artist on Saturday 9 November from 6 to 8pm.
In a presentation of works ranging from 2011 to 2013, Probst continues to develop a meta-narrative that captures the complexities of viewing. In Exposure #106, one of her more recent and ambitious works, a simple reach for an apple is dramatized by a sequence of simultaneously occurring actions. The scene of a taxi driving through a crosswalk is a point of focus, as is the other side of that apple, half eaten, corralled by cookie crumbs, teetering clumsily on the edge of the table. Probst uses a radio-controlled shutter release and up to thirteen cameras at one time to reveal the kaleidoscopic nature of any given moment. While orchestrated with tremendous precision, the Exposures retain a candid quality through their attention to the details that are hidden just beyond the line of sight. The way in which the body is abstracted, with close-ups of truncated hands in motion or miniaturized figures in the composition, is comparative to the way in which the viewer must move physically from one image to the next in order to see each Exposure in its entirety. Each work presents a singular moment concurrently relying on its temporal and spatial relation to a viewer in order to do so.
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