Artists Rosa Barba
Venue Parra & Romero, Madrid
Rosa Barba’s works encompassing sculptures, installations, text pieces, and publications are grounded in the material qualities of cinema. With her radical experimentation with the medium of cinema, the artist creates a new language. Her pieces not only dissect cinema itself but also fragment narration into different layers, implying a level of abstraction in which imagination and a conceptual approach play a decisive role.
Through her installations, Rosa Barba continues her exploration of film and its capacity to simultaneously be an immaterial medium that carries information and a physical material with sculptural properties. The category of film is expanded and abstracted beyond the literal components of the celluloid strip, the projector through which it passes and the image projected onto a screen. Each component becomes a starting point for artworks that expand on the idea of film as well as exploring its intrinsic attributes.


HD video, color, sound, 36 min; 5 colored glass filters, steel base

HD video, color, sound, 36 min; 5 colored glass filters, steel base

16-mm film loop, projector, metal spheres

16 mm film, projector, typewriter

16 mm film, modified projector, glass plates

70 mm film, Steel, aluminum, LED, motors

Silicone membrane, motor, sound

modified projector, plinth, stencil cut 16-mm film, color