*Queens Museum Exhibition Catalog
Shooting Down Babylon is the companion catalog to Tracey Rose: Shooting Down Babylon, on exhibit at the Queens Museum from 04.23.23 - 10.22.23.
Shooting Down Babylon examines the wide-ranging mediums and concerns that are prevalent in Rose’s practice. The exhibition includes film, sculpture, photography, print, and painting, with the body and performativity central to every aspect. For Rose, the body, often her own body, is a site for protest, outrage, resistance and related discourse. Shooting Down Babylon traces her trajectory from earlier interests in expanding narrow identity tropes to the aesthetics of violence; her subversive performative interventions and recently an interest in processes of healing and rituality.
About the Artist
Tracey Rose (b. 1974, South Africa) is best-known for her evolutionary performative practice which often translates to and is accompanied by photography, video, installation, and digital prints. Often described as absurd, anarchic and carnivalesque, Rose’s work explores themes around post-coloniality, gender and sexuality, race, and repatriation.
