Rosa Barba Aggregate States of Matters, 2019
35 mm film (color, optical sound)
Duration: 18 min
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
Shot in the Andes, in Peru, Aggregate States of Matters is a 35mm film with sound that deals with the increasing impact of climate change on remote areas. The work shows the blurring boundaries between human and non-human actors in communities affected by glacier melting in the Andes. Rosa Barba worked with communities that are affected by the melting of a glacier. Barba shows the slow disappearance of the glacier and the perception of this fact within the Quechuan population in the Andes. While exploring different local myths, she outlines the possibility of translating ancient knowledge into the present time. From an extensive dialogue with the local people, Barba draws a critical picture of a world where progress has stopped making sense.
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.
COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Modern Art, New York (#1/5)
Proyecto Amil, Lima (#2/5)
Sharjah Art Foundation (#3/5)
COMPONENTS INCLUDED IN SALE:
– 1x screening print on film, packaged in a custom made box with edition engraved
– 1x hard drive in custom made box with Master high res file, screening files, stills, tech sheet for ownership
– Certificate of authenticity and installation guidelines
COMPONENTS NOT INCLUDED BUT REQUIRED:
35mm equipment:
– 1x 35mm film projector, 3kW Xenon lamp house, incl. Xenon rectifier
– 1x lens according to exhibition space
– 1x 35mm looper
– bus bar: 1x 16A CEE or 1x 16 - 20 A 220V including protection for Xenon lamp and 1x 16 A 220V including protection for projector drive, looper, sound etc.
– 1x pedestal for projector (according to exhibition space)
Sound system
– 2x column speaker + eventually 2x wall brackets or other mounting system as agreed with the artist’s studio and according to the space
– 1x subwoofer
– 1x amplifier
– div. cables (audio, electricity, adapter).
Screen
Front/rear projection screen, suspended from ceiling
– 1x front/rear projection screen, white, seamless, mounted into sandwich frame construction
– aspect ratio: 1.85:1 / minimum width: 5m (image size to be agreed with the artist’s studio according to the space)
– 1x material for hanging system.
INSTALLATION SPECIFICATIONS:
– Minimum 12 x 6m and 3.50m high
– Minimum projection distance: 6m
– Requirement of space for projector + looper: approx. 2 x 3 m at back wall
– Space should be fully darkened
– Acoustic reverberation time: max. 10 msec or less. Install acoustic absorbers if needed
– Installation and dismantling of the equipment have to be made by a film technician authorized by the artist
– Regular check and maintenance during the exhibition as well as the substitution of the film prints are to be entrusted to a film technician familiar with 35mm equipment.
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.
COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Modern Art, New York (#1/5)
Proyecto Amil, Lima (#2/5)
Sharjah Art Foundation (#3/5)
COMPONENTS INCLUDED IN SALE:
– 1x screening print on film, packaged in a custom made box with edition engraved
– 1x hard drive in custom made box with Master high res file, screening files, stills, tech sheet for ownership
– Certificate of authenticity and installation guidelines
COMPONENTS NOT INCLUDED BUT REQUIRED:
35mm equipment:
– 1x 35mm film projector, 3kW Xenon lamp house, incl. Xenon rectifier
– 1x lens according to exhibition space
– 1x 35mm looper
– bus bar: 1x 16A CEE or 1x 16 - 20 A 220V including protection for Xenon lamp and 1x 16 A 220V including protection for projector drive, looper, sound etc.
– 1x pedestal for projector (according to exhibition space)
Sound system
– 2x column speaker + eventually 2x wall brackets or other mounting system as agreed with the artist’s studio and according to the space
– 1x subwoofer
– 1x amplifier
– div. cables (audio, electricity, adapter).
Screen
Front/rear projection screen, suspended from ceiling
– 1x front/rear projection screen, white, seamless, mounted into sandwich frame construction
– aspect ratio: 1.85:1 / minimum width: 5m (image size to be agreed with the artist’s studio according to the space)
– 1x material for hanging system.
INSTALLATION SPECIFICATIONS:
– Minimum 12 x 6m and 3.50m high
– Minimum projection distance: 6m
– Requirement of space for projector + looper: approx. 2 x 3 m at back wall
– Space should be fully darkened
– Acoustic reverberation time: max. 10 msec or less. Install acoustic absorbers if needed
– Installation and dismantling of the equipment have to be made by a film technician authorized by the artist
– Regular check and maintenance during the exhibition as well as the substitution of the film prints are to be entrusted to a film technician familiar with 35mm equipment.
Scroll
