Rachel Rose
Loop (150 million BC), 2021 Fluorite, Jurassic stone 53,3 × 33 × 31,8 cm
About the work
In Loop (150 million BC), Rachel Rose explores transformation and deep time through the relationship between materials. Stone forms over thousands or millions of years and can gradually crumble into sand. Glass, by contrast, takes shape rapidly while molten, before cooling and solidifying. Sand provides a connection between the two, linking geological processes to the making of a new material.
This cycle becomes a way of thinking about how things form, change and come into being. What appears solid and permanent can disintegrate, while scattered particles can become something new. The sculpture brings an immense span of time into the intimate scale of an object we can encounter with our own bodies.
These questions connect to Rose’s wider interest in landscapes, ecology and moments of historical change. Her films bring together subjects as varied as cryogenics, the American Revolution and space exploration, asking how people understand and transform their surroundings. In her sculptures, these concerns take shape within the materials themselves.
Rachel Rose
Born in New York in 1986, Rachel Rose lives and works in the city. Her practice encompasses film, installation, painting, sculpture and drawing.
Across her work, she explores how our changing relationship with the landscape shapes stories, beliefs and social systems. Moving between different historical periods and scientific ideas, she connects human experience with transformations that unfold across far greater stretches of time.
An important project in her practice is Enclosure, originally commissioned by the LUMA Foundation and Park Avenue Armory. The work examines the devastating psychological and ecological consequences of land enclosure in sixteenth-century England. Its interweaving of landscape, history and human systems reflects concerns that run throughout her practice.
Rose’s work has been presented in numerous exhibitions, and she has received both the Future Fields Award and the Frieze Artist Award.