Rosa Barba Reveals the Secret Lives of Artworks

Rosa Barba, an Italian artist who studied theater and film in Germany in the early 1990s, uses analog film to examine the mechanisms of perception and memory and to explore—often by shooting in remote locations—what she has called the “margins, interstices, and interludes” of society. Her works have ranged from experimental installations like Machine Vision Seekers (2004), in which a moving projector throws words onto the walls of a darkened room, offering viewers a chopp