Bartha Contemporary opens an exhibition of works by Clay Ketter
(Artdaily.org)

Bartha Contemporary announces an exhibition of works by Clay Ketter. The artist’s fourth solo exhibition entitled​ Registration​, includes a selection of photographic works made over the past two decades. The title of the exhibition refers to the process of registering information through the means of photography, in the context of Clay Ketter’s ​(b. 1961)​ work this suggests the notion of ‘scanning’ surfaces. Indeed the artist’s practice invites the viewer to enter a world where ‘reality appears to imitate art’​1​. The relationship between the depiction of the real and artifice is rarely closer than the in the ​Gulf Coast Slabs (2007) and ​Valencia ​(2003, 2005)​ series, both portraying reality and the structures of human habitation. This exhibition includes more recent works from the ​Madre Veduta (2011)​ and ​T