ITZIAR BARRIO
BIOGRAPHY AND STATEMENT
Itziar Barrio is a multimedia artist producing long-term projects that involve different agents and collaborators. Through her work, she analyzes social contracts and the construction of reality and identity. The means of production and exchange employed in social negotiations – language, economy, technology, social class, and desire, among others – come to light as a subtext, revealing the glue that binds them: power. Also present in her practice is the fine line that separates fiction from non-fiction, and the film mechanism.
Her work has been presented in international venues such as MACRO Museum, PARTICIPANT INC, MACBA Museum, Belgrade's Contemporary Art Museum, Museo del Banco de la República, and at the Havana Biennial. She has received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and Spanish Academy in Rome. She has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan and ISCP. She teaches at SVA and her recent survey exhibition was curated by Johanna Burton (Director at the Werner Center for the Arts and former curator at the New Museum).
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Title: “A Demon that Slips into Your Telescopes while You’re Dead Tired and Blocks the Light” Video Installation, 4k video projected on a screen and 4k video on a monitor (octagonal form) (2019)
Title: “All of Us Want to Work Less” 3 HD videos, 60 concrete sculptures, platforms, latex and hooks (2018)
Title: “There is Nothing to Be Scared of. They are Crazy about Each Other” 3 channel HD video (53 min), 20 Ikea JEFF chairs and blue chroma key color (walls and carpet) (2018)