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# Rosa Barba makes a poetic explosion at Museum of Modern Art
- URL: https://www.kinoki.co/rosa-barba-makes-poetic-explosion-museum-of-modern-art/
- Published: 2025-04-04T00:09:49.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-04T00:09:49.000Z
- Description: Barba's solo exhibition comprises an installation that spans 15 years of her work. The artist will also hold 6 sound performances.
- Author: David Djordjevic
- Tags: News, museum, installation, film, exhibition

The Museum of Modern Art in New York has announced an exhibition dedicated to the visual artist Rosa Barba. [The Ocean of One's Pause](https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5764?ref=kinoki.co) is an installation that spans the past 15 years of Barba's work across disciplines. The centerpiece of the show will be a new commission titled *Charge*, which will debut in the Mary-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio on the fourth floor of MoMA.

Barba's installation will feature a collection of works consisting of films, kinetic sculptures and sounds. [One of the conceptual axes](https://www.artforum.com/features/historical-projections-the-art-of-rosa-barba-235361/?ref=kinoki.co) that Barba works around is the reinterpretation of the phenomenal perception of film by viewers. In her kinetic sculpture [*Boundaries of Consumption* (2012)](https://www.estherschipper.com/artists/118-rosa-barba/works/25205/?ref=kinoki.co) she questions the immaterial spectacles that we observe on film, instead shifting the focus of the viewer onto the materiality of the sculpture itself.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/98/98986ef2-474e-4f7c-82a5-62d592178e78/content/images/2025/04/barba_rosa_boundaries_of_consumption_001.webp)

Rosa Barba, **Boundaries of Consumption*, 2012\. Transparent 16 mm film, modified projector, film cannisters, 2 metal spheres. Courtesy of the artist.

*Charge* is commissioned by MoMA and [the Vega Foundation](https://www.thevegafoundation.com/?ref=kinoki.co) in Toronto. It is a 35mm film that interprets the role of light as a source of ecological change and a driving impetus behind scientific innovation. It follows [another line of thought](https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/rosa-barba-on-conducting-sunlight/?ref=kinoki.co) that Barba has made a hallmark of her artistic practice, which is her fascination with geologic time, the aesthetics of natural artefacts and hidden traces of land use.

In keeping with [Barba's practice of using sound](https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/582070/rosa-barbavoice-enginehear-there-where-the-echoes-are/?ref=kinoki.co) to create moving images, her works in The Ocean of One's Pause will be accompanied by a series of performances which the artist has described as “exploded poems.” The percussionist Chad Taylor, vocalist Alicia Hall Moran, and Barba will work together to create a unique soundscape designed to reverberate throughout the installation and activate a symphony of images. 

The Ocean of One’s Pause will open on May 3, 2025\. There will be [a total of six performances](https://press.moma.org/film-media/rosa-barba/?ref=kinoki.co) scheduled during the duration of the show. Tickets are available to the general public on April 14\. More information about this and other events at MoMA can be found on [their site](https://www.moma.org/?ref=kinoki.co).