Gladstone Gallery presents a film and installation by Rachel Rose
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Gladstone Gallery presents a film and installation by Rachel Rose
Installation view, Rachel Rose: Enclosure, at Gladstone Gallery, 2022. © Rachel Rose. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery.



NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery announced the New York premiere of Enclosure, a film and installation by Rachel Rose originally co-commissioned by Luma Foundation and Park Avenue Armory. Unfolding against an agrarian community on the verge of obsolescence, Enclosure addresses the catastrophic psycho-social and ecological disturbances triggered by the advent of capitalism and industrialization. This monumental project also includes a new publication and a suite of gravures by the artist. For this installation, the gallery presents a selection of paintings on loan from the Yale Center for British Art that inspired Rose’s vision for this expansive body of work.

Set in rural 17th-century England at the beginning of the Enclosure Acts, a series of legal maneuvers that seized communally used farmlands and privatized property ownership, Enclosure follows a fictional group of purloining travelers who call themselves the Famlee. Led by an alchemist leader, Jaccko, the group scheme to attain land through the transfer of fraudulent paper currency, manipulating unsuspecting farmers into forfeiting their autonomy. The most valuable member of The Famlee is Recent, a teenage girl trained to learn the behaviors, rituals, and shibboleths of the community in order to exploit their anxieties. Recent’s meaning within the film is exaggerated by our contemporary understanding of the relationship between capitalism and gendered division of labor; accomplice to Jaccko’s trickery, the girl becomes co-conspirator in her own entrapment.

As the feudal farmers within Rose’s film become more vulnerable, forests are burned in resistance, people are torn from their homes, and animals are slaughtered. The compounding chaos wrought by disenfranchisement, displacement, and ecological destruction is met by the specter of a nebulous orb that shadows the village with a promise of cosmic doom. Traveling through the atmosphere, the orb leaves inky trails in its wake, reflecting the alchemic notion of the relationship between metals and planets. At this moment in human history, belief in occult and magical forces was collective, and the concept of a coincidence did not exist. Rose’s depiction of the reshaped landscape directly influences an altered state of mind, and how our environment can condition our actions. The trials and tribulations of the characters set against these medieval scenes transport viewers into a historical and fantastical dimension of reality that reverberates still today.




This expansive film continues upon the artist’s singular approach to filmmaking, which seamlessly merges abstracted forms and images with cinematographic and audial precision. Like all of Rose’s projects, a period of rigorous research guided the direction of this carefully crafted narrative, resulting in a powerful visual experience that tells a gripping story of madness, history, and cunning that teeters between reality and magical realism.

Alongside the film, Rose offers a multitude of works that span painting and sculpture, continuing upon the historical and material-based research that comprises this intricate narrative. The Colores works, a series of new paintings by Rose, take the landscapes that inspired Enclosure as a jumping off point. Photographs of 17th- and 18th- century paintings, from Samuel Palmer to Gainsbourough, are complicated by the application of paint matched to exact hues within the original paintings. In a technique developed by the artist, pigments, clear mediums, oils, metallic dusts and latex combine to suggest a process of alchemical manipulation, proposing surfaces that are vulnerable to both chance and invention.

Accompanying these new paintings, Rose presents Loops, a series of hybridized sculptural forms comprised of rock and glass. Here, the artist juxtaposes the ways in which these two materials form in drastically different ways, while also highlighting their connectedness. Hot blown glass takes shape and then sets instantaneously, while rocks form over thousands of years. Rock pulverizes over time into sand, glass is composed solely of sand. The subtext of this convergence calls forth moments of radical shift, as though we are witnessing something in the state of “becoming.” Just as the orb in Rose’s film portends a world balanced on the precipice on change, the Loops memorialize moments of transformation.

Courtney J. Martin, Paul Mellon Director, Yale Center for British Art, notes, “Rachel is an exceptional artist able to productively understand the historic tether of the moment in which she is living. Enclosure gives texture to the way in which the dyad of the industrial revolution and the privatization of common land frame twenty-first century concerns about ecology, gender, health, and worker’s rights. Lending a group of nineteenth-century paintings from the YCBA to this show proves the sustainability of art to speak over and through time, and underscores the ability of all artists to be in a shared conversation about art’s enduring message.”










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