“Stating the Real Sublime 2009 is an astonishing object, most strikingly in that it is a heavy piece of equipment suspended from the ceiling by the diaphanous loop of film that spins through its system, casting an anamorphic square of light that stretches across the floor and up the wall. The film it projects has no image, other than the dust scratches that breed on the surface of the celluloid, slowly accumulating over the course of the exhibition. The power cable slumps to the floor beneath the projector in a disorderly coil, as if to contradict the taut rationality of the loops above it, implying the projector is invested with alchemical powers to transform entropy into order unless, of course, it is the other way around.” Ben Borthwick
Stating the Real Sublime, 2009
16mm film, modified projector Images: Installation view at Tate London, 2010 © Rosa Barba