Bethan huws biography

Biography.
Bethan Huws (born 1961) is a Welsh multi-media artist whose work explores place, identity, and translation, often using architecture and text.
Bethan Huws (born 1961) is a Welsh artist who lives in Berlin.

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Bethan Huws

In Bethan Huws’ work we find language experiments and poetic reflections that take the shape of installations, sculptures, neon-works, photographs, moving-image, drawings and writing. Art-historical and linguistic explorations are at the epicenter of an intricate and multi-faceted artistic practice, whereas writing remains point zero of Bethan Huws personal reflections. Her impressive capability of critically analyzing her surroundings is reflected in her methodical inquiries that go hand in hand with a layer of subtle irony.

In her work, Bethan Huws questions the artist’s role and goes back in time to analyze specific, seminal moments in art history. The liminal spaces she opens up also display a very intimate approach to her practice as an artist. A recurring motive in her work being the overlap of familiar places with vernacular language as well as the interference and merging of sound and words.

Bethan Huws was born in Bangor, Wales in 1961 and currently lives and works in Berlin and Paris. She studied at the Royal College of Art in London from 1986 – 1988

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Bethan Huws: Culture, Language & Thought

A visual metaphor for the interrelationship between individual narratives and texts has been put forward in the theory of literature. All texts take part in a dialogue with each other, according to this premise. Each text incorporates other texts, altering their meaning in the process, so that each one can be regarded as a “tissue of quotations” (Roland Barthes). The image of a fabric, of intertextuality, is also an apt description of Bethan Huws’ artistic practice. Cross-referencing, making allusions, appropriation, citation and association are central to her creative process. By engaging with art history—for over ten years she has been studying works by Marcel Duchamp—and by reading such writers as Beckett, Joyce, Apollinaire and Mallarmé, she strives to define and assess what gives her cause for thought. However, for her, it is never a matter of internal art debate, but of sensual stimuli and intellectual impulses. These might be of a biographical nature, something remembered or experienced perhaps. In a continuous proces

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BIOGRAPHY

Bethan Huws

Bethan Huws (born 1961) is a Welsh artist who lives in Berlin. Her work, which is sometimes described as “conceptual” for the way it plays on simplicity of forms and economy of means, involves language, memory, doubt and cultural identities. Solo shows of her work have been held at numerous international institutions, including most recently the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (2015), Kunstmuseum Bern (Reading Duchamp, Research Notes 2007–2014; 2014), Kunsthaus Zug (2013), the Düsseldorf Kunsthalle (2003) and Whitechapel Art Gallery in London (2011). Her work is also found in prestigious private and public collections, among others the Tate Collection in London, the Museu de Arte Contempor.nea de Serralves in Porto and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She also took part in the 7th Shanghai Biennale (2008) and represented Wales at the 50th Venice Biennale. In 1998 she won the art prize awarded by the Adolf Luther Foundation in Germany, followed in 1999–2000 by a fellowship from the Henry Moore Institute for a residency at the British School at Rome. In 200