Rachel Rose (b. 1986 in New York) explores how
our changing relationship to landscape shapes
story telling and belief systems. She alerts us to
sites and histories in which the sublime and hum
drum blur. A trained painter, she translates these
into a range of media – video, photography, sculp
ture and painting – that interact to connect the
present to deep time.
Her videos are dense tapestries reflecting the multi
valent explorations that drive her. Rose is interested
in the changing conditions of modern life and
how language, technology and images mediate
out-of-sync realities. She has exhibited extensively
around the world, from the Luma Foundation
to the Whitney Museum of American Art, from
the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the Serpentine
Galleries.
For the 2024 summer exhibition, Rose took a series
of photos of those spaces at Fondation Beyeler
that we all see but do not notice: the bathrooms,
the lift, the hallways. Her dramatizations of these,
shrouded in haze, backlit or deep in shade, are
an imagining of more ephemeral possibilities for the
seemingly real and mundane.
This unique edition of five photographs from her
artist booklet What Time Is Heaven was printed
specially for the benefit gala.
Inkjet print
Each 40 × 50 cm
Unique
Copyright: Rachel Rose
Courtesy: Rachel Rose
Provenance: donated by the artist
