Exhibition
Rosa Barba at Perth Festival

Flickering Explorations of Time and Space

Fri, 24.02.2023 -
Sun, 23.04.2023
10:00 AM - 17:00 Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)

In her first solo exhibition in Australia, German-Italian artist Rosa Barba presents an impressive show featuring of 16mm and 35mm film, sculpture, installation, and text-based works. Interlocking themes of astronomy, science fiction, and environmental change unfold across the exhibition, calling attention to the limits of human knowledge and our relationship with the world and galaxy around us.

Situated between experimental documentary and fictional narrative, Rosa Barba examines the relationship between historical record, anecdote and filmic representation to create spaces of memory and uncertainty, more closely resembling myth than the reality they represent. Films will include ‘Drawn by the Pulse’ (2018), ‘In The Color Out of Space’ (2015) and ‘Somnium’ (2011).

Presented by Perth Festival in association with Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), supported by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA) and the Goethe-Institut.

Entry is free.