Rachel Rose: Enclosure

8 Mar-16 Apr 2022

Overview

Pilar Corrias is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Rachel Rose, the third with the gallery and the first across both of our spaces. 

Rose presents her newest video work Enclosure at Pilar Corrias Eastcastle Street. Originally co-commissioned by LUMA Arles and the Park Avenue Armory, Enclosure unfolds against the social and political backdrop of the Enclosure movement – the large-scale privatisation of common land that transitioned England from a feudalist to a capitalist society, from an unpolluted landscape to a dramatically industrialised one. 

At Savile Row, Rose shows her Loops, a new series of sculptures, as well as a new set of paintings, titled Colores. In these works, pastoral landscapes idealised in 18th-century paintings by Gainsborough, Palmer, and Constable serve as the basis for a number of painting techniques Rose developed using pigments and metallic dusts. The weights of the colours, their related dry times, the gravity of the self-developed mediums all work together in minuscule and large scale shifts, unearthing the surreal energies latent in these actual landscapes.

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