$70.20
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
21 April 2026
Summary
Rosa Barba (b. 1972) is a Berlin-based artist whose work offers a crucial deconstruction of film and sculpture and how the two relate to each other. While her installations and site-specific interventions challenge and reconstitute the viewer’s notions of cinema and its staging vis-a-vis gesture, genre, documents, and information, her films settle at an ambiguous point between experimental documentary and fictional narrative, thriving in a contemporary moment while hinging on fleeting memory …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781838668853 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1838668853 |
| Author: | Stuart Comer, Shanay Jhaveri, Élisabeth Lebovici, Julie Ault, Rosa Barba |
| Publisher: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 21 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 1.00kg |
| Dimensions: | 290mm x 250mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Praise for Rosa Barba:
‘Rosa Barba’s films, sculptures, and performances start with movies and the machines that make them. They end up in the realm of exuberant effects.’ – New York Times
‘Rosa Barba has a way of taking our world’s most magical and most fundamental elements, then folding them in on one another – taking them apart, making them anew.’ – Art in America
About The Author
Stuart Comer
Rosa Barba is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. She is the recipient of a variety of awards, including the Zurich Art Prize (2025), the Calder Prize (2019), and the 46th Prix International d Art Contemporain of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco (2015).
Stuart Comer is the Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Shanay Jhaveri is the Head of Visual Arts at the Barbican in London.
Elisabeth Lebovici is an art historian, writer and mentor based in Paris.
Julie Ault is an artist, writer and editor who has exhibited at numerous international institutions.
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