The work of Rosa Barba (Italy, 1972) often considers the juxtaposition of natural landscapes and human-made changes to the environment, archival histories and futures, intimacies between astronomy and cinema, and non-actors as documents. At its core lies an ongoing reflection on impermanence – of materials, of images, and of thought itself.

The title ‘Drawing Vocabularies’ suggests unstable and open-ended processes. It evokes sustained explorations of liminal spaces and the bending of possibilities for reorganising space by deconstructing the cinematic apparatus and filmic environment to reveal spaces beyond cinema.