Rosa Barba has always been fascinated by vast and arid landscapes, particularly the desert for its seemingly endless perspective. The point of time in Time as Perspective is unclear and it could therefore be a futuristic vision or an historical document.
Rosa Barbaʼs films deal with the aspect of time, not only as a progressive linear motion but also as something that unfolds in layers of depth. In the artistʼs words: “Time intervals stacked one over another in a kind of geological ʻdeep timeʼ form the basis for much of my thinking about the film medium.” As such, the film becomes an imprint of the depth of time, where one can see or sense a spatial structure inward into the story, with all its strata and transformations.
Rosa Barba was born in Agrigento in 1972 and grew up in Germany where she studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne followed by a residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
She currently lives and works in Berlin.
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