Matthew Barney is an American contemporary artist and filmmaker known for his interdisciplinary practice that combines sculpture, film, performance, and installation. His work brings together stories, figures, and symbols from different historical periods and cultures with real landscapes and personal experiences, exploring the interconnected relationship between moving images and physical artworks.

This exhibition follows the narrative thread of the film Redoubt, with an extended story told through electroplated copper works, drawings, sculpture, and other media. The graphite drawing on paper, Yellow Diana, introduces the central protagonist into the gallery and continues the mythological imagery found in the film. As the goddess of the hunt, Diana symbolizes dynamics of predator and prey, nature, and feminine power, and is an important figure linking the film’s overall narrative with its roots in Roman mythology.

Barney was born in San Francisco, California, in 1967, and currently lives and works in New York. He has held solo exhibitions and touring exhibitions at major international art institutions, including Tate Gallery, London, UK; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, USA; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA. His solo exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery in the United States subsequently traveled to the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing, China. More recently, he held a solo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris, France.