Rosa Barba Colors with Phonetic Similarities, 2025

The work is a kinetic sculpture using film. Looped around four metal rollers—on all four sides just inside the frame—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 and horizontal strips of film are in constant movement, producing a landscape of cascading red shades.

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.