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Finissage performance at Rosa Barba’s In a Perpetual Now at Neue Nationalgalerie, 2021-2022
In January 2022, a finissage was held for Rosa Barba’s exhibition In a Perpetual Now at Neue Nationalgalerie. On this occasion, drummer Chad Taylor was joined by Rosa Barba on cello to perform Hear, There Where the Echoes Are, 2016, a piece that brings an increasingly sculptural and performative dimension to the exhibition with light beams echoing the drum beat in a choreography that seems to disassemble the cinematic device and dissolve the image. As the title suggests, the image appeared as the instant intersection of the installation, the architecture, and bodies passing through.
Film: MONA Productions
In A Perpetual Now
The Neue Nationalgalerie celebrated its reopening after six years of renovation with a solo exhibition by Rosa Barba. Under the title In a Perpetual Now, Barba presents key works of her oeuvre from the years 2009–2021, as well as a new film created on the occasion of the exhibition: Plastic Limits – For the Projection of Other Architecture.
An expansive steel structure—referring in its architectural design to Mies van der Rohe's early project, Brick Country House—hosts 15 of Barba's cinematic and sculptural works. Specially produced for the architecture of the Neue Nationalgalerie, this major solo exhibition follows the principle of cinematic montage, which plays a pivotal role in the artist’s work as well as her conceptual approach to cinema itself.
