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Detail: Rosa Barba, Liberties, 2020, wax, framed, 69 x 50 cm (27 1/8 x 19 3/4 in) (unframed), 83 x 54 cm (32 5/8 x 25 1/4 in) (framed), unique in a series of 7. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Cast in wax, the letters become three-dimensional objects—in their seemingly fragile materiality, the framed wax pieces mirror the artist’s search for meanings and traces of ever-changing and infinite versions of narration bursting out of common dictions of rhythms.