D Rosen: Elemental Impressions of Interspecies Care, of Violence
@ ACRE Projects
2921 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, August 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, October 6th
ACRE Projects presents D Rosen: Elemental Impressions of Interspecies Care, of Violence, a solo exhibition exploring non-human animals’ entanglements with human agricultural and domestication practices. Rosen’s cast metal sculptures preserve the ephemeral, materially archiving the methodical activities of Dogs and non-human animals living on farms, and highlighting the enmeshment of care and violence within domestic spaces. In documenting collaborative rituals of care between human and non-human animals – the removal of hazardous material from a Dog’s mouth, the grooming of a pregnant Horse – Rosen rejects historically-rooted power dynamics, reexamining binaries in service of the cultivation of queer ecologies.
Furthering the breakdown of conceptual human and non-human animal divides, Rosen uses metal to record care work and interspecies relations. Typically associated with human industry and innovation, metal is a varied and agential material in itself that is also vital to human and non-human animals alike. The metal plow a Horse or Steer would have pulled to tend crops is now the artist’s chosen method to advocate for human-animal collaboration and care. In reappropriating a material used by humans for violence and forced labor into one that preserves gestures of kinship, Rosen demonstrates matter’s ability to hold a multiplicity of meaning. Building on the tactility of metal, Rosen creates artwork that invites a multisensory experience, using sight, touch, and scent to elicit memories of non-human and human audiences within Elemental Impressions of Interspecies Care, of Violence. Here, Rosen’s sculptural snapshots of the lives of Goats, Horses, and Dogs remind us to respect and nurture interspecies relationships, striving towards comfortable, ethical life cycles for non-human animals beyond the monetary or efficiency benefits they offer us.
Image description: Photograph of a Goat kid, Scout, eating a tangle of green bindweed. Scout’s two front hoofs are resting on a grey chain link fence.
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