Overview
Rachel Rose's first solo show in Scandinavia brings together new and recent works that look at the changing role of the sun, the moon and rituals of the day. In these works, Rose explores how the constant re-imagining of these symbols in the sky are material effects of the ever shifting social and physical landscape.
In the video work Enclosure, installed alongside two accompanying sculptures and a photograph, Rose presents a fictional story based on the historical phenomenon of ‘enclosure’, as practiced in England between 1500 and 1700, when free, unregulated access to the cultivation of the landscape passed into the hands of a few, central landowners.
The second part of the exhibition focuses on a new work, The Last Day, shown with a series of recent drawings. The film is composed of over 900 photographs that Rose took every day throughout the year in her children’s bedroom. Rose arranged her children’s toys in miniature landscapes, to capture Earth’s development. The juxtaposition of photographs show a range of extant toys found in their room – using these to tell an apocryphal tale of the eternal story. As a backdrop to this, the drawings illustrate the mundane activities that make up a typical day for a child: having breakfast, going to the park, drinking a bottle of milk, taking a bath, etc.
