Parachutable is a 16mm looped projection in which two disembodied voices occupy the image of an airplane hangar and an architectural model of the same building. It is a reference to a visionary building constructed by the architect Alfred Hardy that was meant to disappear in a specific angle of daylight. The images alternate synchronously in different light, fading into empty white frames, as the dialogue gradually turns to visionary ideas of escape and disappearance.
Parachutable, 2005
2 x 16mm film, color, optical sound, 3 min. and 2 min.
Images 1, 2: Film still © Rosa Barba
Image 3: Installation view at Kunstverein Kassel, 2005 © Rosa Barba
Parachutable, 2005 has been on display at the following locations:
Kunstverein Kassel, Fridericianium, 2005
Vera Gliem, Cologne, 2005
W139 Amsterdam, 2004
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, 2004