ROSA BARBA: LANDSCAPE AS AN ACTOR OF MEMORY
Meaning Distances brings together the Italian artist’s sculptural and film-based works at Zagreb.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb presents Meaning Distances, an exhibition by Rosa Barba curated by Morana Matković and Nika Petković. The show displays a selection of sculptural film works. Through a repertoire spanning sculpture, installation, and film, Barba explores the tension between permanence and impermanence, reality and fiction.
Using performance as both framework and method, she examines the instability of knowledge, the unruliness of cinematic apparatuses, and the complexity of astronomical phenomena. In her films, natural landscapes and human-made interventions emerge as key actors, serving as metaphors for political, cultural, and architectural transformations within society.
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Rosa Barba. The Color Out Of Space, 2015. Five colored-glass filters, steel base, HD video, color, sound, 36 minutes. Installation view, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA, 2015. Photo: Peter Harris. Rosa Barba.
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Rosa Barba. Aggregate States of Matters, 2019. 35mm film (color, sound, 21:14 minutes) and custom 35mm projection system. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. 2024 Rosa Barba. Installation view, Collection 1980s- Present, The Museum of Modern Art New Vork, 2024, Photo: Walter Włodarczyk. Digital Image, 2024 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Rosa Barba. Photo: Saskia Uppenkamp. Rosa Barba
Working with the raw materials of cinema—projectors, screens, and celluloid film—Barba probes the abstract conditions of space and time, creating pieces that measure the convergence of light and sound. Meaning Distances opened this year’s 25 FPS Festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.
Rosa Barba: Meaning Distances will be on display until November 9 at Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Black Box Gallery, Avenija Dubrovnik 17, Zagreb (Croatia).
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