Bonniers Konsthall

Rosa Barba (b. 1972) is based in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include Rooms Look Back at Kunsthalle Basel, Italics, Palazzo Grassi, Venice in 2008, Making Worlds, Venice Biennale and the Gothenburg Biennial in 2009.

The film is part of Rosa Barba’s trilogy of the Mojave Desert, which occupies an area of 22,000 square miles, covering parts of southern California, Utah, Arizona and Nevada in the United States. In They Shine, the artist depicts a landscape shaped by man’s attempts to capture the desert heat. The desert, which was previously used for military purposes, today houses one of the world’s largest solar power plants.