Rosa Barba’s Double Rhymes (2024)
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On view at Art Biesenthal 2025: Some Degree of Friction, curated by Tjioe Meyer Hecken
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Double Rhymes (2024) combines steel, glass, motors, 35mm film, and aluminum in a unique sculptural installation. Measuring 100 x 100 x 12 cm, this work is part of a limited series of 7 with 2 artist’s proofs. Barba engages film as both medium and object, interrogating its material, spatial, and sculptural possibilities. By staging film beyond the screen, she redefines its relationship to gesture, genre, and document, positioning the viewer within an expanded cinematic environment that blurs the boundaries of truth and fiction, myth and reality, metaphor and material.
From the Double Rhymes series.
Rosa Barba, born in Italy, lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, and completed her PhD at Lund University in 2018. Barba is the recipient of numerous awards including the Calder Prize (2020) and the PIAC Prize (2015). Her practice spans film, sculpture, and installation, often creating site-specific works that explore cinema’s capacity to articulate space and time.
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Recent and upcoming exhibitions include The Ocean of One’s Pause,
@themuseumofmodernart (2025); Meaning Distances,
@msuzagreb (2025); Under The Canopy,
@mdbkleipzig (2025). Other notable solo exhibitions include shows at
@tate (2023);
@pica_perth (2023);
@neuenationalgalerie (2021);
@museoreinasofia (2017); and
@pirelli_hangarbicocca (2017).
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