In One Way Out the film’s materiality, malleability and fragility are stressed bya suspended suction mechanism that movesthrough a pipe that enhances the flutteringsound. What traces does the film leave behind?The image projected is a random arrayof scratches and marks left by the frictionof the celluloid against the tin pipe duringthe exhibition. As both a sound pieceand a film sculpture, the work extends fromthe architecture of the exhibition spaceinvisible infrastructure.

 

One Way Out, 2009

16mm film, optical sound, projector, ventilator, tube

Image 1: Installation view at Braunschweig Kunstverein, 2011 © Rosa Barba

Image 2: Installation view at carlier gebauer, 2011 © Rosa Barba

One Way Out 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

Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, 2024-2025

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2024

Centre Pompidou, 2023

Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2021

Cornerhouse Playtime, Manchester, 2014

Kunsthalle Bremen, 2018

Gallery KHMI, Malmö, 2018

Malmö Konsthall, 2017

Cornerhouse Playtime, Manchester, 2014

Galleria Civica Trento, 2011

Braunschweig Kunstverein, 2011

carlier gebauer, 2011

Lux at Zoo London, 2009

Gio Marconi, Milan, 2009