SITE Santa Fe presents Goodnight Moon, a new solo exhibition by Rachel Rose on view through September 11. The show features new and recent work in sculpture and installation, as well as newly commissioned video work and notable historical loans from the Yale Center for British Art.
Goodnight Moon centers Rose’s 2019 film “Enclosure,” originally co-commissioned by LUMA Foundation and Park Avenue Armory. It teeters on the edge of magical realism in its gripping and rigorously-researched narrative about the catastrophic social, psychological, and ecological impact of the advent of capitalism in 17th-century agrarian England. A collection of historic drawings and paintings by Samuel Palmer, John Linnell, and William Blake — on loan from the Yale Center of British Art — directly inspired her vision for this expansive body of work.
“Rose’s earliest artistic training was in painting, and while she is perhaps best known for her film installations, the history of painting, including theories of composition and color, has always been central to her work,” says SITE Santa Fe curator Brandee Caoba.
Complementing the film are several sculptures called “Loops,” which combine rock and glass into artifacts that seem to hail from the landscape of another time. Though the rock and glass may initially appear as two distinct entities, “Loops” actually illustrate two states of the same material: sand. However, where sand heated for blown glass sets almost instantly, rock takes thousands of years to form.
The sensation of compressing all time into a single artwork reappears in “The Last Day” (2023), a five-minute film premiering at SITE Santa Fe. Composed of 1,800 medium-format photographs of her children’s bedroom, the work depicts seven days, each representing an epoch in world history. Starting before life and culminating with the end of time, a carpet woven of nano lights co-created with Google and installed in the bedroom is intended to create a sense of non-place, non-time, and nowhere-ness.
Also shown for the first time at SITE Santa Fe is a new series of photographs, Groundhog Day. Inspired by the eponymous 1993 comedy about endlessly living the same day, Rose’s collection of 24 photos documents every hour of her waking day on February 2, 2023. The installation mirrors the final day in “The Last Day,” with references in the white floor and floating scrim ceiling.
Audio guides accompanying the exhibition are available in English and Spanish.
Goodnight Moon is curated by Brandee Caoba.
A full schedule of public programs will take place throughout the run of the exhibition.
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