Rosa Barba – Under the Canopy

Rosa Barba has created a spatial installation for the Museum of Fine Arts Berlin (MdbK) on the large terrace on the second floor. In "Under the Canopy," Barba explores the physical perception of light and space. Colored glass floats within a modernist second ceiling, creating a room within a room that opens transparently to what lies beyond and above. The terrace thus becomes a giant camera lens, focusing and projecting light. Through this quasi-photographic process, time—daylight in its varying qualities—takes on a form. Barba thereby addresses a fundamental shift: while digital spaces increasingly determine our perception, space and time remain distinctly physical experiences. In doing so, Barba emphasizes the relevance of the analog in a digital world.