We are delighted to announce that the photographic work ‘The Woolly Eye’ by Bjarne Bare has been acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Founded in 1961, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, holding an extensive collection of artworks from various historical periods and regions globally.
“The Woolly Eye (2025) presents a close-up photographic study of a sheep’s gaze, captured in California, in the winter of 2025. The work is part of an ongoing series in which I photograph domesticated animals as allegorical figures, symbolising the vulnerability and dispossession of nature under the pressure of human dominance. The sheep, with its deep historical and cultural associations as a symbol of obedience, sacrifice, and docility, serves here as a complex figure through which to explore tensions between domestication, control, and loss.”
- Bjarne Bare