Rosa Barba: Exhibition Notes

The Exhibition Notes installation includes Blind Volumes (2016/2022), a work that uses steel frames as a support, a kind of stage on which films and kinetic sculptures are displayed. Eight further artworks are choreographed around the gallery, transforming it into a place for experimentation. The gallery thus becomes a space where the constitutive elements of film, celluloid, projector and sound are presented: elements that often remain invisible, overlooked, and unexplored precisely because they are so obvious. By placing the various components of film in new experimental constellations, the artist liberates them from their original uses.

The exhibition includes the following works: One Way Out (2009), Color Clock (Blue): Verticals Lean Occasionally Consistently Away from Viewpoints (2012), Spacelength Thought (2012), Color Studies (2013), The Long Poem Manipulates Spatial Organizations (2014), Conductor (2014/2021), Above the Plate and Receiver (2016) and Hear, There, Where the Echoes Are (2016/2022). They are united by their sculptural treatment of the material, their constant movement, their creation of colour and sound compositions and, ultimately, the way they form a precise and sophisticated artistic whole.

Published by: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana/Cukrarna Gallery
Represented by: Blaž Peršin
Cukrarna Gallery represented by: Alenka Gregorič
Editor and exhibition curator: Alenka Gregorič
Text: Patricia Falguières
Conversation with the artist: Alenka Gregorič
Translation from French to Slovenian: Iztok Ilc
Translation from French to English: Renaud Jun d'Avout d'Auerstaedt
Translation from Englih to Slovenian: Urban Belina
Slovenian language editing: Katja Paladin
English language editing: Ana Čavić
Photos: Andrej Peunik/MGML
Design and layout: Ajdin Bašić
Printed by: Cicero d.o.o., Ljubljana
Print run: 300
Number of pages: 126
December 2022