Rosa Barba

Ediciones InauditasNeuer Berlier Kunsverein (nbk)n.b.k. Records2LP

2021820221Neue NationalgalerieIn a Perpetual NowMies van der RoheBrick Country House project1924

Instruments Inside Out

In her exhibition In a Perpetual Now, Rosa Barba filled the modernist spaces of the Neue Nationalgalerie with her films and projectors deployed on an architectonic structure modelled after Mies van der Rohes plans for his unrealized Brick Country House project (1924). Creating a maze of lines and surfaces around the gallery, this streamlined metal form set the stage for the artists activation of a polyphonic composition in which all the elementsfilms, objects, modified projectors, screensultimately interacted with each other.

Titled Instruments Inside Out, the audio recording of the exhibition creates an archive of the works but also of the performance of the machines and their location in the space throughout the exhibition period. The soundtrack reenacts the framework of perception by offering another viewpoint on the composition as a whole. By defocusing the visitors attention away from the visible elements of the exhibition, Rosa Barba captures the diffuse effects of the propagation of sound and recomposes the play of associations between sounds, objects and voices.

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