Rosa Barba: Frame Time Open

A mid career retrospective exhibition celebrating the work of artist and filmmaker Rosa Barba, whose practice destabilses the conceptual terms of cinematic space.

The exhibition, like a specially designed score in Zaha Hadid’s space, spans over two decades and brings together a selection of some of Barba’s most significant sculptural works and films including a new 35mm film and a new sculpture.

Barba has dedicated years to an expanded filmmaking practice that explores light, transparency and reflection, animated through a site specific installation structure which is both a drawing in space and a support structure.

“My work takes a conceptual approach that considers cinema in an architectural sense and as an instrument, where the environment, the screen, and the projection can be combined or pushed forward to create another spatiotemporal dimension that is concurrent with and beyond the context of interior or exterior space. Uncertainty and speculation exist within that expanded space. It is an anarchic dimension and offers a new foundation for thinking and acting through destabilising the old hierarchy of the components of cinema by freeing them up from their original uses and letting them interact in new and unforeseen ways.” – Rosa Barba: On the Anarchic Organization of Cinematic Spaces – Evoking Spaces beyond Cinema, 2018, published by Hatje Cantz, 2021.