EXHIBITION

Rosa Barba: Solar Flux Recordings

Madrid, Madrid, 05/17/2017 - 08/27/2017

Santa Isabel 52

ABOUT

Rosa Barba (Agrigento, Italy, 1972) is a Berlin-based visual artist and film-maker who predominantly bases her work on the use of celluloid and filmic devices, in both materiality and concept. Her pieces imply discontinuities, paradoxes and dialectic turns which are born in between the process of image creation and its metaphors. Mediums such as film, sculpture, installation and the written text come together to engender contradiction, the irony in a conceptual universe that transcends reality. Her films are often micro-stories of reality which grow inside a possible fiction; seemingly marginal happenings take on the value of a historical document, more real than major political and economic events. Omitted from official accounts of History, these everyday, fantastical narratives are normalised to explain the time we live in under the formula of post-modernity.

Since her early work in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Barba has incorporated her artistic practice into the settings and architecture which accommodate her pieces in order to trace new narratives. White Museum (Centre International d’Art & du Paysage, Vassivère, 2010), Free Post Mersey Tunnel (Liverpool Biennial, 2010) and her recent installation at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Blind Volumes (Frankfurt, 2016), have all borne witness to her interest in contextualising certain works. In the spring of 2017, the artist will present a site-specific project inside the Palacio de Cristal in the Retiro Park, engaging in dialogue with the idiosyncrasies of this nineteenth-century space.


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