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Rosa Barba
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Rosa Barba (b. 1972) is a Berlin-based artist whose work offers a crucial deconstruction of film and sculpture and how the two relate to each other. While her installations and site-specific interventions challenge and reconstitute the viewer's notions of cinema and its staging vis-a-vis gesture, genre,...
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Rosa Barba (b. 1972) is a Berlin-based artist whose work offers a crucial deconstruction of film and sculpture and how the two relate to each other. While her installations and site-specific interventions challenge and reconstitute the viewer's notions of cinema and its staging vis-a-vis gesture, genre, documents, and information, her films settle at an ambiguous point between experimental documentary and fictional narrative, thriving in a contemporary moment while hinging on fleeting memory and encroaching uncertainty. Predicated by extensive study in a variety of places, and occasionally enhanced by live performances conceived to activate her pieces, Barba's art provides an experience that brings back the audience to the bewildered, complex reality that surrounds us every day.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781838668853
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 April 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Phaidon Press Ltd
Illustration: 160 Illustrations
Contributors:
- By Rosa Barba
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 250.0mm
Height: 290.0mm
Weight: 1000g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Rosa Barba is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. She is the recipient of a variety of awards, including the Zurich Art Prize (2025), the Calder Prize (2019), and the 46th Prix International d Art Contemporain of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco (2015).
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