"For the past fifteen years, every other day, Rita Barros has revealed a lost but still alive spectacle in the rooms, corridors, hall, and other secret places of a unique world: the Chelsea Hotel. Rita Barros guides us through the theater of solitude of the Chelsea, haunted by dreams, emotional ambiguities, fragments of identity, hidden desires and emotions, shadows of lost worlds, and all-powerful semi-living beings that tend to dissolve into a new dimension: the dimension of New York. In Rita Barros's diary-like photographs, one feels the artist's distinct singularity in contrast to the angst of New York. The angst of being. With penetrating clarity, she not only lifts the curtain on the famous Chelsea, but illuminates it. For a viewer, it is a privilege to discover the secret world of the Chelsea Hotel in New York." Gerard Schreiner