Rose Salane
All These Events Are True, But None of Them Happened
1 Mar – 14 Apr 2018
Rose Salane
Selected Work
Person 31 - 60, 2019
Silkscreen print, found rings, 59.5 × 99 cm (23 × 39 inches) each of six frames; 121 × 302 cm (47 5/8 × 118 7/8 inches) overall installed
Installation view, Panorama 94, Art Basel Statements, Basel, 2019
Panorama 94 examines a collection of 94 rings that were lost then found throughout the New York City Subway system in 2016. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority stored each ring for one year in the hope that they would be reclaimed by their respective owners. The rings were documented by colour and material before being archived with a detailed description and unique number for the MTA’s records. Salane acquired the lot and has since been working with a biology lab to extract potential traces of mitochondrial DNA left behind on each ring, an intuitive reader to search for any spiritual information imbued within these objects, and a pawnshop to appraise their material values. Presented with this assortment of collected insights, we are asked to consider parallel notions of value and truth as we recall the lineages of the individual in a public environment, the individual within the city, and the individual within a global population.
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Selected Press & Texts
- "Watching New York City Take Shape at Windows on the World"
By Josephine Livingstone, The New Yorker, 2018 - "Rose Salane: All of These Events are True, but None of Them Happened"
By Elliott Michleburgh, The Seen, 2019 - "At MIT, Rose Salane Unspools the Personal and the Political Like a Librarian"
By Pamela Reynolds, The Arterty, 2019
Selected Publications
- 94 Rings: Lot #17-525AE
Artist Booklet, Art Basel Statements, 2019 - C21OWO
Exhibition catalogue, with texts by Rose Salane and Camila Palomino,
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, 2021
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b. 1992, USA
Lives and works in New York
2014, BFA Fine Arts, Cooper Union
2019, MA Urban Planning, Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CUNY
Solo Exhibitions
2021
C21OWO, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York
2019
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2018
Indigo 237, Carlos/Ishikawa at Company, Condo New York
All These Events Are True, But None of Them Happened, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
2015
High From the Other Side, Jeffrey Stark, New York
Who Isn’t Seeing Someone?, Four A.M., New York
2014
The Stairwell, Cooper Union, New York
The Collection, Cooper Union, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
New Museum Triennial, Soft Water and Hard Stone, New York (Forthcoming)
De Por Vida, Company, New York
2019
Forget Sorrow Grass: An archaeology of Feminine Time, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
Fixing the “not… but”, LC Queisser, Tbilisi, Georgia
2018
The Hard Facts on Tragedy in April, Lomex, New York
2017
The Skies and the Atmosphere’s Most Luscious, Allen and Eldridge at James Fuentes Gallery, New York
2016
Trust Issues (curated by Ryan Steadman), Ronchini Gallery, London
Spring Awakening, Francesca Pia, Zurich
No Hope, No Fear (curated by Daniel Peterson), Swiss Institute, Rome
2015
The Written Trace (curated by Ariella Wolens), Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
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