This two-person solo exhibition, curated by Sanaz Mazinani, featured ten years of collaborative works by Barber and his partner the author Ingrid Rojas Contreras; new sculptures and videos by Barber; and new multimedia codices by Rojas Contreras. From the press release:

“In their solo exhibition Rojas and Barber mythologize their personal histories—Rojas explores the story of her grandfather, a medicine man in Colombia, while Barber reimagines the boundaries of the body and its limitations in a series of sculptural and video works. Lo Real Maravilloso is a diverse look at extrasensory occurrences in the everyday through narrative storytelling and visual art installation.

The new works produced by Barber were inspired by the idea that objects carry the energy of their previous owners. Tools stuffed with burning incense, body casts and string that winds around and through the sculptures mirror ghosts and other immaterial presences in Rojas Conteras’ storytelling.

Lo Real Maravilloso was supported by a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.