Barbara Kasten Architecture & Film

This book spans five years of Barbara Kasten’s recent installations following Barbara Kasten: Stages, the artist’s first major museum survey in 2015 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Graham Foundation in Chicago, and MOCA Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles (2016).

Since the 1970s, Kasten’s nearly five-decade engagement with abstraction and light has developed through the lens of sculpture, painting, theater, textile, and installation. Well-known within photographic and contemporary art discourse, the artist has recently begun to be reconsidered within the broader context of architectural theory.

Edited by Stephanie Cristello, Barbara Kasten: Architecture & Film (2015–2020) concretizes this legacy within the artist’s practice and contextualizes her ongoing investigations into how moving images and perception play within and through architectural forms.