Ikon Gallery will showcase the work of Glasgow-based artist Sara Barker from September 23 through November 27. The exhibition aims to reflect on Barker's artistic process, especially the connection the artist feels with language and literature, and the similarities she draws between them and art. Barker's artistic practice is situated on the boundary between sculpture, painting and drawing, and the creative use of space. Incorporating rods of steel and aluminum, sheets of glass, and painted sections, her works display her interest in how space exists in stories, memories, and the mind.The artist explains: "All I’ve ever really wanted my work to do, physically and emotionally, is reverberate with people, be powerful, which is probably why I make sculpture at all. It’s that human physicality that is sort of looming, that is bigger than you. You have to be in it, or surrounded by it, or overwhelmed by it.”The exhibition will feature Barker’s existing installations and a new work created especially for Ikon.Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek of the exhibition.
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