Rosa Barba

Projected from the 6th floor of the Centre Pompidou, the work inscribes a rectangle of light each night onto the Stravinsky Fountains plaza, offering passers-by an ephemeral, immaterial gallery at the heart of urban space.
For Rosa Barba, the museum projects and projects itself. It exceeds its physical limits to re-enact its role in the public sphere. This inversion of the gaze - from inside to outside - redefines the museum experience, imagining a museum without walls , immaterial, in which everyone is invited to project their own images, narratives and possibilities.

At once a projection apparatus and an architecture of light, White Museum (Centre Pompidou) continues the artist's ongoing research into cinema as an expanded form: a cinema freed from the screen, conceived as a spatial and perceptual experience. Rosa Barba materialises here an imaginary space through a frame of intense white light of monumental dimensions.
By projecting the museum beyond its walls, Rosa Barba amplifies its primary function as a shared place traversed by multiple gazes. The work thus raises a central question: how can the museum be reactivated as a site of community, as a space where individual imaginaries can resonate with one another? By opening a perceptual field rather than imposing content, White Museum (Centre Pompidou) restores to each and every one the possibility of seeing, imagining, and finding their place within the collective space.