Faculty Conversation with Ethan Berry

Berry’s new installation in the Bare Gallery, entitled “Sometimes,” is a partial response to W. B. Sebald’s book “A Natural History of Destruction” and is a reflection of the writer’s experience reading and viewing the German national response to the devastation of cities and culture during World War II. His observations on the literature from this time reveal a pattern of displacement and erasure of the reality of the destruction. Berry’s project includes images and projections created during his recent sabbatical. Also included are texts that reference, or are reactive to this state of upheaval and transformation which provide the potential for interpretation in visual form.

Read Ethan’s bio here.