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Rosa Barba Dictionary of Color Standards, 2025
35 mm film, steel and aluminum frame, motor, Plexiglas, LED lights
100 x 70 x 12 cm
Dictionary of Color Standards is a kinetic sculpture using film. Looped around two metal rollers—one just inside the frame on bottom, the other on top—and lit from behind by a light box, colored film stock produces a continuously changing composition. The colors were produced by filming color filters. Vertical strips of film are in constant movement, producing a landscape of cascading colors.
The work is related to Barba's series of still sculptural works made from film stock, Weavers, as well as more generally highlighting the role of artful editing of still and moving pictures in the artist's filmic works. The changing pattern of suggest all these instances producing of light, color, image and sound in Rosa Barba's practice.