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Rosa Barba uses film as raw material to explore landscape, memory and different types of temporality. She creates fictions in which she questions History and offers new interpretations, often poetic and enigmatic.
In her installations, the artist uses 16 or 35mm film as a medium and considers the sculptural and material qualities of the film, the projectors or the light beams that emanate from it. She analyzes its potential, changing our traditional cinematographic experience and questioning the notion of linear time.
In her sculptural approach to the medium of film, the artist creates site-specific installations that highlight.
the way film articulates space, thus establishing a new relation-ship between the artwork and the viewer. Questions about composition, the physicality and plasticity of forms play an important role for the artist while she also questions the film industry and its posture towards gesture, gender, information and docu-ments. Her cinematographic works are situated between experimental documentary and fictional narrative.
They often focus on natural landscapes and human interven-tions in the environment and explore the relationship between historical archives, personal anecdotes and filmic representation, creating spaces of memory and uncertainty.
rosa barba
Her work has been exhibited in prestigious institutions and biennials around the world.
She studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and completed her PhD entitled “On the Anarchic Organisation of Cinematic Spaces: Evoking Spaces beyond Cinema” at the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts in Malmö, Lund University, in 2018. She was a visiting professor at MIT’s ACT (Program in Art, Culture and Technology) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Barba holds a chair in Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Bremen.
Rosa Barba uses film as raw material to explore landscape, memory and different types of temporality. She creates fictions in which she questions History and offers new interpretations, often poetic and enigmatic.
In her installations, the artist uses 16 or 35mm film as a medium and considers the sculptural and material qualities of the film, the projectors or the light beams that emanate from it. She analyzes its potential, changing our traditional cinematographic experience and questioning the notion of linear time.
In her sculptural approach to the medium of film, the artist creates site-specific installations that highlight.
the way film articulates space, thus establishing a new relation-ship between the artwork and the viewer. Questions about composition, the physicality and plasticity of forms play an important role for the artist while she also questions the film industry and its posture towards gesture, gender, information and docu-ments. Her cinematographic works are situated between experimental documentary and fictional narrative.
They often focus on natural landscapes and human interven-tions in the environment and explore the relationship between historical archives, personal anecdotes and filmic representation, creating spaces of memory and uncertainty.
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