Tarrah Krajnak in: The Rose

The exhibition The Rose, organized by artist Justine Kurland and CPW curator Marina Chao, is an exploration of collage as feminist form, strategy, and genealogy. It includes works by over fifty contemporary artists, as well as several key figures from the 1960s and ’70s.

The artists in The Rose use archival materials, family photographs, vernacular imagery, paint, scraps of paper, ceramics, textiles, film, and more as their material—cutting, ripping, and rending apart the whole, necessitating the reparative act of gluing, binding, and assembling things into a new unity. And yet their work moves beyond violent refusal; its energy, mysticism, and eroticism are transformative, helping us to imagine new ways forward.