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Rosa Barba's exhibition Meaning Distances brings together a selection of sculptural film works. Barba’s conceptual explorations of film probe historical records, personal narratives, and the sensory experience of cinema and sound, often by recording natural landscapes and human-made changes to the environment. Landscape acts here as a pivotal actor in relation to transforming socio-political, cultural and architectural situations. Using performative framing as a strategic device, her films question the instability of knowledge, explore myths, and scientific experiments.

 

 

International Archives 2nd half of 2025

Rosa Barba, Meaning Distances
The Museum Contemporary Art, Zagreb (Croatia)

23.09 - 09.11.2025

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Artist Rosa Barba explores permanence, impermanence, reality, and fiction through a repertoire of works traversing sculpture, installation, and film. Using performance as a framework and method, Barba examines the unruliness of cinematic apparatuses, the instability of knowledge, and the complexity of astronomical phenomena. Her work examines how space is influenced by temporal and linguistic constructs, challenging traditional understandings of narrative and language. Natural landscapes and human-made interventions into the environment feature as pivotal actors in Barba's films, and as proxies for charting political and cultural transformations in society. Using the raw material of cinema–projectors, screens, and celluloid film–Barba probes theoretical and abstract conditions of space and time, creating pieces that often quantify the convergence of light and sound.

Her work is part of numerous international collections and recent solo exhibitions include: MoMA, New York (2025), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2023), Tate Modern, London (2023), Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2021-2022), HangarBicocca, Milan (2017), Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2017) and Secession, Vienna (2017), Schirn Kunsthalle (2016), and at Biennials such as the 53rd and 56th Venice Biennale, and Performa (2013). 

The exhibition opened this year's 25 FPS Festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.

Exhibition 23 September - 09 November 2025. The Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Galerie Black Box, Avenija Dubrovnik 17 - Zagreb, 10000 (Croatia).

 

 

 

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 York, 2024. Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk. Digital image. © 2024 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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