In her work, Rosa Barba probes forms of knowledge, visual archives and the embedding of memory in landscape. Starting with a Byzantine tabula, an autonomous woven motif, she creates a graphic artifact similar to a mental map, in which discontinuous threads give rise to a form. More than a simple copy, her drawing is an encryption, an attempt at a shifting transcription. Combining cinema, drawing and archaeological traces, the artist continues her research into the materiality of knowledge and the possible modes of transmission of history to future times.
Clavus, 2025
Magnesium plate, mounted on wood and framed
21,50 x 27 x 4 cm
Photo © Centre Pompidou-Metz / Marc Domage / 2025 / Exposition Copistes
Clavus, 2025 has been on display at the following locations:
Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2025