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* 1961 in Bangor, Wales. Lives in Paris, France.
British artist
Known for: Word vitrines, readymades, architectonical interventions
Exhibited works
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Riverside Piece, 1989. 1st | B | For an exhibition at Riverside Studios in London, Bethan Huws left the gallery rooms empty. But she did install an exact duplicate of the floor on the original floor. As such, it was not visible to visitors. | |
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1st | A | The exhibition took place in a modernist villa by Mies van der Rohe (built 1928–1930), which had been converted into a gallery space. When Bethan Huws saw the house for the first time, she found it so beautiful that she decided to regard it as a readymade and left it as it was. However, she prepared an accompanying text, which contained a series of meaningless word lists. After the show, artistically she felt at a zero point, and produced nothing for five years. | |
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1st | B | Bethan Huws's contribution to the exhibition Art About the Unseen 1957–2012 at the Hayward Gallery in London was invisible to most visitors who did not even suspect that there was anything at all. However, Bethan Huws had engaged some professional actors to pretend to be visitors and behave like everybody else around them. | |
| Links Ingleby Gallery | Galerie Tschudi | Galerie Hollenbach | Further informations 1 | 2 | 3
Credits All reproductions © 2014, ProLitteris, Zurich | ||
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