Rosa Barba
Guest at Moviment
Rosa Barba is an artist and filmmaker who balances conceptualism with a distinctly personal vision in her work.
Rosa Barba merges films, sculptures, installations, live-performances, text pieces, and publications that are grounded in the material and conceptual qualities of cinema. She also creates installations and site-specific interventions to analyze the ways space is articulated and reflected by time, placing the work and the viewer in a new relationship. Questions of composition, physicality of form and plasticity play an important role in the perception of her work. She interrogates the industry of cinema with respect to various forms of staging by inviting the viewers to participate in her cultural observations. This happens through shifting of gesture, genre, information and documents, that she takes often out of the context in which they are normally seen, reshaping and representing them anew.
Her film works are situated between experimental documentary and fictional narrative, and are indeterminately situated in time. They often focus on natural landscapes and man-made interventions into the environment and probe into the relationship of historical record, personal anecdote, and filmic representation, creating spaces of memory and uncertainty, more legible as reassuring myth than the unstable reality they represent.
Her work is currently exhibited at Tate Modern, London (2023) and most recently at PICA, Australia (2023); Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours (2022); Villa Medici, Roma (2022); Luhring Augustine, New York (2022); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2021-22); Cukrarna, Ljubljana (2021-22); Yokohama Triennial (2020); Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland (2020); among others. In 2021, Rosa Barba inaugurated Inside the Outset: Evoking a Space of Passage, 2021, a permanent Open-Air Cinema sculpture and 16mm film transferred to digital and 8k film in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Deryneia, Cyprus and Pillage of the Sea, a permanent sculpture in the sea in Ostende, during the Beaufort Biennial.
Her work is part of the collections of many of the best museums in the world, including: the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, MAXXI, Rome, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Philadelphia Museum of Art, US or SFMOMA, San Francisco.
It has been widely published, amongst others in the monographic books Rosa Barba: On the Anarchic Organization of Cinematic Spaces – Evoking Spaces beyond Cinema (2021), Rosa Barba: From Source to Poem (2017), Rosa Barba: Time as Perspective (2013), and Rosa Barba: White Is an Image (2011), published by Hatje Cantz; Rosa Barba: In Conversation With (2011, Mousse Publishing); Rosa Barba: The Color Out of Space (2016), published by MIT List Visual Arts Center/Dancing Foxes and Printed Cinema (2004-) published by Dancing Foxes.
She was awarded various prizes, i.e. the Calder Prize (2020), the 46th PIAC, International Prize for Contemporary Art, of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco (2015), Premio ACACIA, Milan (2012), HAP Grieshaber Prize (2007), Kunstpreis Berlin, Akademie der Künste (2006) and Hermann Claasen Prize (2001).
Rosa Barba
Hear, There, Where the Echoes Are, 2023
Cinema, Visual arts Installation, performance
For Moviment, Rosa Barba has created an installation that befits Gallery 3, investing its great space with a tangle of shapes, sounds, beams of light and projected colours. Designed as a wander around a space teeming with memories, the work offers a sensory experience that is further reinforced during vocal and musical performances, as the performer becomes the conductor of an almost organic and living thing.
Wednesday, 17 and Thursday, 18 May 2023
