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Rosa Barba: The Ocean of One’s Pause
May 03, 2025 – July 06, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art
In Rosa Barba’s conceptual explorations of film, the artist regards cinema as an architectural medium, using film as a speculative instrument to examine the unique properties of space. She explains, “I explore film and its capacity to simultaneously be an immaterial medium that carries information and a physical material with sculptural properties.”
Featuring film, kinetic sculpture, and sound activations, this exhibition spans 15 years of Barba’s work. Charge, a newly commissioned 35mm film, forms the core of the installation and probes light as a source of ecological and societal change. Barba’s films often explore natural landscapes and human-made changes to the environment by delving into historical records, personal narratives, and the sensory experience of film.
Accompanying these works is a series of live performances that reconceive the relationship between cinema, the body, and the human voice. Details to be announced.
Charge is co-commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Vega Foundation, Toronto.
Organized by Stuart Comer, The Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance, with Gee Wesley, Curatorial Associate, Department of Media and Performance. Performances produced by Kate Scherer, Senior Manager and Producer, with Jessie Gold, Assistant Performance Coordinator, Performance and Live Programs.
Media and Performance at MoMA is presented through a partnership with Richard Mille.
Leadership support for the exhibition is provided by the Wallis Annenberg Director’s Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art, the Sarah Arison Endowment Fund for Performance, and the Julie A. Zoppo Fund for the Exhibition of Women Artists.
Images
Rosa Barba. Voice Engine. 2021. Performance/Installation view at Callie’s, Berlin, 2021. Photo: Callie’s © Rosa Barba
Rosa Barba. Voice Engine. 2021/2023. Moviment, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2023. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Amélie Boulin © Rosa Barba