Rachel Rose
The Last Day, 2023
HD video
7 mins
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The Last Day (2023) is a seven-minute video comprising thousands of medium format photographs shot in her children’s bedroom. Rose composed a series of still lifes from the toys and...
The Last Day (2023) is a seven-minute video comprising thousands of medium format photographs shot in her children’s bedroom. Rose composed a series of still lifes from the toys and everyday objects found in a child’s nursery. The work is structured in seven days, and in each day, she lit the still lifessequentially from sunrise into night. Each day’s still life—from a bottle of milk to a pile of construction trucks—symbolizes a different epoch in the history of the earth. A close-up of milk becomes the amorphous primordial world; a duck from the bath becomes early ocean life. There are dinosaurs, trucks for industrialization, and finally there is the last day, a radical imagination of the end of time. The work lays bare that the history of earth’s landscape—from the primordial, to the prehistoric, to the industrialized and into the near future—is embedded in the development of imagination.
Provenance
Exhibitions
Rachel Rose: The Last Day, Science Gallery London, April 17 – May 11, 2024Bedtime Stories: Rachel Rose | James N. Kienitz Wilkins | Haig Aivazian, The High Line New York, March 5 - May 6, 2024
Rachel Rose: The Last Day, LUMA Arles, July 2, 2023 - January 7, 2024
Rachel Rose: Goodnight Moon, Site Santa Fe, 2 June - 11 September 2023