The Long Poem Manipulates Spatial Organizations is a 16mm film installation balancing filmic and sculptural concerns. The projector has been tilted 45 degrees so the image is diamond-shaped instead of square. It shows a series of color filters (like Color Studies, 2013) with stenciled letters that have been carved out of the celluloid.
“In this piece, Barba ties together many threads that run through her practice: the shift between the filmic image and the apparatus that produces it, the liminal space where language is constituted and collapses, a preoccupation with color as a parallel register of signification, and the activation of sound as a key locus of meaning, even in its absence.”
(Ben Borthwick)
The Long Poem Manipulates Spatial Organizations, 2014
modified projector, plinth, stencil cut 16-mm film, color plinth
ca. 35 x 40 x 106 cm
Image 1, 2, 3: Installation view at Parro&Romero, 2016. Photo: Roberto Ruiz © Rosa Barba
Image 4: Installation view at Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, 2017. Photo: Mizuki Tachibana © Rosa Barba
The Long Poem Manipulates Spatial Organizations has been on display at the following locations:
MALI – Museo de Arte de Lima, 2024
cccod, Tours, 2022
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2021
Malmö Konsthall, 2017
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2017
FIAC, Paris, 2015
Albertinum Dresden, 2015
Artpace San Antonio, 2014
Vistamare, Pescara, 2014
Chinati Foundation, 2013