Rosa Barba / David Maljkovic

It's gonna happen

Exhibition: February 11 - March 11 2006
Thursday - Saturday 4 - 7 pm
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"It's gonna happen" is a meeting point for two works, namely a 16 mm film of the same name by Rosa Barba and "Again for Tomorrow" by David Maljkovic: an installation that is being continuously developed and adapted site-specifically - in this case for the space of croy nielsen.

Barba's film breaks up and subverts the unity of narrative, image and sound. We listen to a phone call between a president and his collaborator, who are planning an unspecified coup. The images consist of subtitles, only, describing a city in the typical language of a film script. Maljkovic's installation "Again for Tomorrow" builds fictional stories in the various locations it inhabits. In this case it becomes a host for (or a parasite of) Barba's story, incorporating it in its structure and creating a new genesis

"It's gonna happen" and "Again for tomorrow" meet at the point in which the future becomes a black hole and creates new possibilities. It inflicts a parallel life on the content of the works and their inherent problems are placed in a new time-frame: the space of the future.
(Barba und Maljkovic)

Barba and Maljkovic met at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2003 and this is their first joint solo exhibition. Barba has a current solo exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, and from spring Maljkovic will have a residency at Kunst Werke, Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.