#rosa barba

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Rosa Barba Weavers, 2023 16 mm blue film, nails, walnut frame

62,5 x 52,5 x 2,8 cm

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Rosa Barba, "Isolation of Information," 2015,

Linocut ink on unstretched canvas,

110 h × 29¼ w in (279 × 74 cm)

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Rosa Barba, "Uncertain Theme - and Therefore Abstract" (2021) // Eternal return // Eternalism (philosophy of time) // King Woman, "Golgotha"

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Inside the Outset: Evoking a Space of Passage is a project by artist and filmmaker Rosa Barba following an invitation by Point Centre for Contemporary Art in Nicosia and curator Mirjam Varadinis to propose and realize a project in Cyprus.

The work proposed by the artist in 2013, started in 2014 and consists of two parts: a film and a long-term open-air cinema installation. The project was then presented to the Italian Council and received the first prize at the international competition (Third Edition) in 2018, and was awarded a grant from DGAAP (Directorate General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries), Italy.

Barba’s film is exclusively shot in Cyprus, including underwater shots of the Mazotos shipwreck, as well as aerial shots from archaeological sites. It is an investigation into the loaded, transforming topography that is already palpable in the landscape, before we actually understand what language it creates for our society. In that, the film follows Barba’s artistic approach to examine liminal states which manifest in between contested spaces, both mentally and geographically, in order to allow for a new perspective. The inaugural screening took place in Autumn 2021 at the open-air cinema installation in the Buffer Zone.

Inside the Outset: Evoking a Space of Passage, 2021

16mm film transferred to digital and 8k film, sound, 31:15 min

Produced by Point Centre for Contemporary Art, funded by the Italian Council. A collaboration with Famagusta Avenue Garage.

Images: Film still © Rosa Barba

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Rosa Barba - Pensiero Spaziolungo

Neon, 65 × 422 cm, 2017

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Rosa Barba, A shark well governed, 2017 [Hangar Bicocca, 7 ottobre 2017, Milano]