Barba's work is a reflection of society and a critique of the problems it generates. "Art is a privileged platform and those of us who have access have to take advantage of it..." He highlights the two speeds at which society advances, the vertiginous imbalance in which our world lives - opulence and poverty, culture and ignorance... and on the other hand he shows the isolation, incommunication, mass consumption, alienation and loss of personal identity that we suffer daily.

He tries to capture these concepts conceptually and formally. The elements he uses are the result of the photographs he takes with his camera, video and other types of documentation. These are characters and icons that he transforms into...