Color Studies consists of two projectors on the floor, objects without a base. Facing each other, they share a single screen on which they project recordings of photographic filters in red, yellow, and blue. The two machines establish a dialogue through the veil of projection and infinite possibilities and variations of color are created. The material properties of film are here investigated with a musical approach: the screen is anchored by a music stand, as if it were a musical score; the rhythm is provided by the combination of colors, used like notation sheets; the machines are two interpreters of one composition.
Color Studies, 2013
2 x 16 mm film projectors, 2 x 16 mm film, screen, each film: 2:00 min
Images: Installation view at Gio Marconi, 2013 © Rosa Barba
video: Exhibition view at CCA, Kitakyushu, 2019
Color Studies has been on display at the following locations:
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2024
Denniston Hill at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 2023
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2021
CCA Kitakyushu, 2019
The Wallach Art Gallery, 2017
Albertinum Dresden, 2015
MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2015
CAC Vilnius, 2014
Gio Marconi, 2013
MUSAC Leon, 2013