Owa Barua (b.1986) is an Edinburgh-based moving image artist whose practice expand across the fields of film, video, dance and sound.
Owa’s work searches among the mundanity and performative of life, focussing on movement and light as a non-conceptual form of expression. A ritualistic act that celebrates the image itself.
Besides his motivations on formal approaches to his practice, Owa is interested in exploring the relationship between perception, experience and memory, while seeking structures through his affinities towards the realms of myths and rituals.
His work have been selected and awarded at several international film festivals, and also installed at the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), Southbank Centre (London), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Santiago, The National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa, the University of Bath, Mediawall and Theatermuseum, Vienna.
Exhibitions and Screenings
2019 CineAutopsia Festival de Cine Experimental de Bogotá, Colombia 2019 InShadow, Lisbon Screendance Festival, Portugal 2019 DIG. Dance Internacional Glasgow, Scotland 2019 MiniKino Bali International Short Film Festival, Indonesia 2019 Quebec city Film Festival, Canada 2019 ABOP Open Projector event for Subculture & Alternative Cinema, Ashville,NC 2019 Screen.Dance Scotland's Festival of Dance on Screen, Scotland 2019 Glimpse. The Scottish Arts Club, Scotland 2019 Everybody Dances. The Cosmos of Viennese. Dance Modernism, Theatermuseum, Vienna 2019 FruitMarket Gallery, Scotland 2018 Auckland Live Digital Stage, New Zealand 2018 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2018 Hidden Door Festival, Scotland 2018 Glasgow School of ART Beyond, Scotland 2017 Lost & Found installation, Q Theatre, New Zealand 2017 Light Moves screen dance Festival, Ireland 2017 Agita & Sirva screendance Festival, Mexico 2017 Media Wall Installation, Bath Spa university, England 2016 Movement Exhibition & Multiple Screening Installation, Perth Concert Hall, Scotland2016 Light Moves Screendance Festival, Ireland 2016 Festival international de Video Danse de Bourgogne, France 2016 Agita & Sirva Screendance Festival, Mexico 2016 International Dance Film Festival Brussels, Belgium 2015 Southbank Centre, Unlimited Festival, England2015 Le Morambeau, France2015 Moving Image Videodance Festival, Greece 2015 Venice Experimental Cinema Festival, Italy 2015 Philadelphia Screendance Festival, US 2015