Category: Reviews

In Red Sea, Barbara Agreste confronts the viewer with an unsettling vision of deep crimson waters – a sea transformed into a site of silent catastrophe. Filmed without knowledge of the tragedies that would later unfold, this work reveals Agreste’s practice as an intuitive form of prophetic witnessing, where the act of creation brings forth truths not yet articulated in public discourse.

Barbara Agreste’s art unfolds like a fragile whisper from the edge of a dream — a place where broken tiles scatter light like shattered memories beneath drifting petals, and sharp, glinting shards catch glimpses of hidden fires. She weaves poisoned ivy with the ghostly figure of Ophelia,

This is a film frame from Rain, the short film by Barbara Agreste. This particular frame shows the shot in which some multicolored leaves fall from the sky, and their branches are violently shaken by a mysterious and frenetic wind. This wind seems to be upset, like if…