Carte Blanche: Rosa Barba

In conjunction with the exhibition Rosa Barba: The Ocean of One’s Pause, Barba has curated a selection of films drawn from MoMA’s collection. For Barba, cinema “allows time and space to vibrate, collapse, overlap, and extend,” and Carte Blanche: Rosa Barba features avant-garde and experimental film and video works that have influenced hert career. In these works, landscapes marked by extraction and urban expansion teem with radical possibility, transformational journeys are charted through otherworldly realms, and language becomes a visual and physical material that can fragment, flicker, or be thrown into space. Spanning genres, formats, and nearly 70 years, this series maps the contours of Barba’s singular practice through the moving-image works that have inspired her conceptual approach to film.

Organized by Stuart Comer, The Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance, with Gee Wesley, Curatorial Associate, Department of Media and Performance.

Film at MoMA is made possible by CHANEL.

Additional support is provided by the Annual Film Fund. Leadership support for the Annual Film Fund is provided by Debra and Leon D. Black, with major funding from The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art, The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), and The Young Patrons Council of The Museum of Modern Art.