Rosa Barba

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Sunday 27 September · until 28 Sept

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In her first major exhibition in Portugal, Rosa Barba presents at CAM a new site-specific and temporal narrative exploring the impermanence of materials, images and thought itself. Celluloid film and cinematic apparatuses act as sculptural elements, making the exhibition at once a three-dimensional film and a musical score.

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 human beings, archive stories and visions of the future, the proximities between astronomy and cinema, and the use of non-actors as witnesses. At the heart 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 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.