Rosa Barba

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Monday 28 September

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In her first major exhibition in Portugal, at CAM, Rosa Barba presents a new site-specific narrative in which celluloid film and cinematic apparatuses also act as sculptural elements, in a reflection on the impermanence of time and space.

For her first major exhibition in Portugal, Rosa Barba presents a new site-specific and temporal narrative, drawing on and expanding a series of conceptual themes she has explored over the years. Rosa Barba's work (Italy, 1972) often addresses the juxtaposition of natural landscapes and environmental changes caused by humans, archive stories and visions of the future, proximities between astronomy and cinema, and the use of non-actors as witnesses. At the centre of this approach lies a continuous reflection on impermanence — of materials, of images and of thought itself. At CAM, these concerns manifest themselves in the physical presence of celluloid film and cinematic apparatuses, used not only to create moving images but also as sculptural elements that live on their own. The exhibition functions as a three-dimensional film and, at the same time, as a musical score, in which cinema allows time and space to vibrate, crumble, overlap and expand.