Rosa Barba: Spacelength Thought Exhibition – Exploring Film, Sculpture, Time, and Archives

This exhibition by German-Italian artist Rosa Barba explores the temporal dimension in art and how film articulates space. It features a selection of her films that engage with the concept of archives, alongside her sculptural works.

The work of German-Italian artist Rosa Barba is viewed through the lens of an expanded concept of sculpture, where the temporal dimension plays a crucial role alongside composition, physicality, and form. Her films explore time and how film articulates space, establishing a new relationship between the work and the viewer. Each film serves as a topographic study of the 'modern unconscious,' delving into realms of memory and uncertainty that, despite their unstable reality, can be read as a reassuring myth. Barba's cinematic works oscillate between experimental documentary and fictional narrative, often focusing on natural landscapes and human interventions in the environment, examining the interplay between historical record, personal anecdote, and cinematic depiction. In her solo exhibition 'Spacelength Thought' at the Secession, Rosa Barba presents a selection of films that engage with the concept of the archive, as well as some of her sculptural works. The exhibition opens with the alternating films 'Somnium' (2011) and 'Disseminate and Hold' (2016), highlighting two key aspects of her practice: the connection to literature as a source and reference in her work, and her engagement with an open concept of the archive. 'Somnium' directly references the narrative of the astronomer, mathematician, and natural philosopher Johannes Kepler. In his 1608 text, considered an early example of the science fiction genre, Kepler describes an imagined moon journey and his vision of Earth as seen from the Moon. Barba's film, shot in Maasvlakte, an expansion area of Rotterdam's largest European port, features passages from Kepler's narrative read by a disembodied voice, while a second, 'collective' voice conveys the ideas of the people living and working there about the future of this location. A single individual is portrayed in the film, and as is often the case in Barba's work, a marginal figure becomes the protagonist. In 'Somnium,' this figure is a beekeeper who, despite the encroaching subjugation of nature by industry, continues to tend to his hives. Focusing on beekeeping, which is vital to our ecosystem's balance, can be interpreted as a symbolic statement.

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