Introduction
On the occasion of her exhibition at CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Rosa Barba makes a new 35mm film to be screened in the monumental space of the Nave. Shot in the USA, at the largest media archive worldwide — the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia — the film From Source to Poem investigates what could be seen as the cultural legacy of twentieth-century Western civilization. In the artist’s own words: “With this new 35mm film I’d like to examine further the geographies we create around us. I’d like to start a dialogue on the meaning and content of the collective effort in storing cultural values.”
Besides this monumental screening, the audience will also discover a new light installation entitled Hear, There, Where the Echoes Are — following on from the White Museum series — consisting of diverse cinematographic projectors orchestrated according to a synchronised sequence. On the opening night, the activation of each projector will be decided according to the rhythm of Chad Taylor’s live sound performance. This choreography, configured in the context of a collective listening, will remain like an after-image in the installation, the piece functioning afterwards as a sculpture orchestrated in the space with its visitors.