Rosa Barba

As Fixed in Flux consists of an intricate play of moving metal spools and arms hung with printed film strips. Its machine aesthetic and material novelty attest to the artist’s interest in color theory, poetry, time-keeping and time-challenging devices at the intersection of astronomy and cinema. What movements conceal machines in their marking of time?

As Fixed in Flux, 2025

Steel, aluminium, glass, motors, 35mm film
114.5 × 107.5× 39 cm

Photo: CHROMA © Rosa Barba

As Fixed in Flux, 2025 has been on display at the following locations:

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, 2026

MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, 2025–2026

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 2025