Remai Modern announces new web commission by Rosa Barba

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"Untitled" ©Rosa Barba 2011

Remai Modern announces its latest web commission, Unprocessed in States, 2017, by internationally renowned artist Rosa Barba. The project will be featured on the museum’s website from January 1 to 31, 2017. Remai Modern web commissions are curated by Gregory Burke, Executive Director & CEO, and Sandra Guimarães, Director of Programs & Chief Curator. 

Working across a number of media—including 16- and 35-mm film, sculpture, text and sound recordings—Rosa Barba almost exclusively addresses the subject of cinema. Her work considers how film articulates space and complicates notions of linear time.

For her project, Unprocessed in States, Rosa Barba extends an open invitation to be part of a film shoot. During the month of January, the artist will place a camera in select locations, both private and public, throughout the city of Berlin. Working from a position of trust, Barba leaves the camera alone, sometimes for days at a time, before moving it again. The single-shot raw footage will be shown in real time on Remai Modern’s homepage. After the session concludes, an edited version of the footage will be accessible through the museum’s online archive of web commissions.

Unprocessed in States concentrates on sites of transformation, where action, patterns and variation unfold at different paces. While our experience of the world via media is increasingly “live,” urgent and individualized, the narrative time of civilization can be delaying, cyclic or motionless. Barba reflects on the traces that history leaves on the landscape and urban environment, suggesting that these changes often manifest themselves only in a society’s subconscious.

“Barba’s work is carried by a sense of history, time and place, quality of light and the essence of the film itself,” said Burke. “As it unfolds, her web commission will open new connections between space, action and even performance in real time, while offering insights on the dynamic and increasingly digitally conditioned relationship between public and private realms.”

“Rosa Barba takes us into worlds dense in time and space,” said Guimarães. “She conveys the essence and intensity of particular moments, in a manner similar to still life, but in movement. Her work is based on the intersection between past and present, a kind of suspension through which our own sense of time, our very reality, can be both illuminated and consumed.”

About Rosa Barba:

Rosa Barba (b. Sicily, Italy,1972) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and is a PhD candidate in Fine Arts at the Malmö Art Academy. Barba has had residencies at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam; Iaspis, Stockholm; The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; and Artpace, San Antonio, among others.

Barba has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions at major museums throughout Europe and the US, and her work has been exhibited in numerous art biennials, including the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2014); International Triennial of New Media Art, Beijing, China (2014); 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014); Performa, New York City (2013); International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (2014); Liverpool Biennial (2010); and the 53rd and 56th Venice Biennales.

Barba’s films have been screened in many film festivals and institutions worldwide, including MoMA, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Tate Modern, London. Her work has been widely published and is represented in many important international collections. In 2015, Rosa Barba was awarded the 46th International Prize for Contemporary Art by the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco.

About Remai Modern Web Commissions: 

In association with its pre-launch programs, Remai Modern is inviting artists to realize original projects exclusively for online viewing. On the first day of every month, work by a new artist will appear on Remai Modern’s homepage. Previous commissions by Ryan Gander, Tammi Campbell, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Thomas Hirschhorn, Taysir Batniji, Pedro Barateiro, and Kara Uzelman remain accessible in the online archive. Through these commissions, the museum considers its website as an extension of its physical space and onsite program. Mobile and experimental, this online gallery allows for direct, personal encounters with art while connecting artists and audiences across the globe.

Source: Remai Modern