Rosa Barba / Italy / Germany

The three sculptures Color Clocks: Verticals Lean Occasionally Consistently Away from Viewpoints are “kinetic paintings”: Three big mechanical instruments in which 35 mm strips are constantly moving, each of them reproducing a colour – red, blue and yellow – with a word. These sculptures are reminiscent of the internal mechanism of a clock but they are different in the sense that they do not define time but reverse it in an endless loop. It’s a meditation on colour, time, perception and language, on the meaning of a word when repeated to infinity.