Rosa Barba Transforms Lisbon's CAM into an Immersive Cinematic Landscape

Until 28 September, Rosa Barba (Agrigento, 1972) is presenting Rosa Barba. Drawing Vocabularies at the Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM) in Lisbon.

With this exhibition, Barba becomes the third artist to be granted "carte blanche" to intervene in the museum's Nave space and select works from the CAM Collection, creating a multilayered narrative throughout the Mezzanine. Each work from the collection is presented as the protagonist of a dialogue with the body of work the artist has created for the lower floor. Barba has focused primarily on artworks that reveal the intrinsic visual qualities of words and writing, while also tracing her own creative process.

This speculative approach to histories, spaces of preservation and memory highlights the artist's longstanding interest in the archival potential of places where reality and fiction converge to generate new stories and hidden conversations. The exhibition also explores how archives can construct non-linear experiences of time.

The exhibition features visual and sound installations characterised by variations in light intensity, flickering effects and overlapping sound elements. These sensory features may cause discomfort or sensory fatigue for some visitors.