Exhibition view: Rosa Barba, Drawing Vocabularies, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, 2026 Photo © Bruno Lopes. Courtesy of the artist and Calouste Gulbenkian Museum © Rosa Barba / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
Press Release
For her first large-scale exhibition in Portugal, Rosa Barba ‘redraws’ her vocabularies through this site-specific installation, incorporating performance, film, and sound.
The title ‘Drawing Vocabularies’ suggests unstable and open-ended processes. It evokes sustained explorations of liminal spaces and the bending of possibilities for reorganising space by deconstructing the cinematic apparatus and filmic environment to reveal spaces beyond cinema.