Galerie Gisela Capitain

Barbara Bloom

...the whole grand pattern of human endeavor

31.03.2023 - 20.05.2023

For decades Barbara Bloom’s works have shown an underlying interest in decor and the grammar of display that structures meaning. Her genteel atmospherics are a form of conceptual interior decoration. In a time indebted to the strategies of rapid-fire technological communication, what could be more perverse than to surprise the eye, and slow things down, not with spectacle, but with an assemblage of minute details so understatedly controlled?