Rosa Barba Enterprise of Notations, 2013

This filmic sculpture continues the artist's research which began with works like Invisible Act (2010) and Boundaries of Consumption (2012). In Enterprise of Notations (2013), several spheres are transported on a rail by perforated film while being projected simultaneously. The process alludes to early forms of telecommunication or the punch cards of early music transcripts.

Rosa Barba engages within the medium of film through a sculptural approach. In her works, Barba creates installations and site-specific interventions to analyze the ways film articulates space, placing the work and the viewer in a new relationship. Questions of composition, physicality of form and plasticity play an important role for the artist as Barba examines the industry of cinema and its staging vis-à-vis gesture, genre, information and documents. Her film works are situated between experimental documentary and fictional narrative. They often focus on natural landscapes and human-made interventions into the environment and explore the relationship of historical records, personal anecdotes, and filmic representation, creating spaces of memory and uncertainty.