Roxana Barba
Sunday January 18 - March 1, 2026
Loop to Zero is artist and choreographer Roxana Barba's new solo exhibition. Barba is known for creating multimedia dance works for both stage and gallery settings, where choreography, audiovisual elements, and sculptural objects come together to form richly sensory, speculative narratives.
New to her work, and developed on the occasion of this exhibition at under the bridge art space, in North Miami, is the exploration of sonic and performative sculptural works that connect to studies of cyclical systems and complex ecologies, alongside the introduction of ceramic pieces that embody themes of transformation.
Using copper and aluminum pipes to trace lines moving through the gallery space, Barba's large site-specific installation reveals itself as a sculptural, sound-making body. In close collaboration with dancers and musicians, Barba's performance will activate the installation's interior cavities and pathways with sound receptors. By blowing, humming, purring and rubbing the pipes, performers enter an intimate physical and audible connection with the sculpture, one that will be amplified in a live, interactive performance.
Furthermore, a film visually and aurally interconnects with the metal installation, shaping the interior and exterior of its lustrous architecture.
Loop to Zero explores animist spaces, making the metal sculptural installation a living and breathing entity in constant mutation. This theme is further explored by ceramics and video pieces, interlacing cyclical loops as metaphors for the evolving nature of identity, and ideas of hybridity.
The eruption of organic and digital sound exploration, as well as liveliness in non-human bodies evolves from her most recent performance 'In my center, a cyborg seed' (2024), which explored themes of transformation, divination and myth, blurring boundaries between nature, culture and technology.
Artist Statement :
Working across video, collage, installation and performance, my practice investigates relationships between history andcontemporaneity, humans and non-humans, the virtual, digital and physical. My projects are research-driven and oftenengage in interdisciplinary collaboration and experimentation.
My work centers around the body and the image-Iexplores corporeality in relation to processes of transformation, renewal, construction and decay. My work excavates our contemporarycondition, navigating poetic narratives, speculative fiction, myth and history
Bio
Roxana Barba (Lima, Peru) is a Miami-based artist and choreographer whose wide-reaching, conceptual andexperimental practice explores hybridity across performance, time-based media and sculptural work. Whether composed as site-specific performances, experimental assemblages of sculpture and sound, or video installations, Barba’s abstractions move through the spaces between body, materiality, identity, and culture.
Often exploring her own body as a site, Barba’s multiform practice responds to processes of transformation, renewal,construction and decay. She draws from history, technology, the alien and the familiar to raise questions around our contemporary condition. Her projects often engage in lasting interdisciplinary collaborations with musicians, dancers, visual artists, technologists and historians.
Her work has been presented by Latinx Project at New York University, La Mama-Culture Hub (New York), Koubek Center, Miami Light Project, Perez Art Museum Miami, DORCAM and Alianza Cultural de Miraflores (Lima, Peru),among others. Her most recent performance ‘In my center, a cyborg seed’, was presented with funding support from a 2022 Knight New Work Award and a 2024 NALAC Fund for the Arts.
Barba has also been awarded a 2025 WaveMaker Grant, 2023 South Arts Individual Artist Grant, a 2024 MentorshipAward by the U.S. Latinx Art Forum and a 2019 Knight Arts Challenge.
She is a resident artist at Laundromat Art Space in Little Haiti, Miami.