Fault Lines
8 Aug–7 Sep 2025Rose Salane
Rose Salane
Born 1992, USA. Lives and works in New York.
Rose Salane works with what she calls “dynamic sets”—objects once held by individuals, auctions, and institutions—to reflect on the intricacies of value and exchange, personal attachments, and sentiments of memory and loss that shape life in cities. In her installations, she examines how these accumulations of objects can narrate complex relationships between an individual, a site, and a collectively lived experience through the forces that ensured their preservation. By extensively researching, analyzing, and categorizing these object accumulations, Salane reveals poignant connections between personal narratives and the institutional structures that frame our daily experience.
Salane completed her MA in Urban Planning at Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CUNY and her BFA at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Solo presentations of Salane’s work have been held at: TANK, Shanghai (2024); The Athenaeum, Athens, Georgia (2024); The Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2021); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2019); and Carlos/Ishikawa, London (2018, 2023). In 2021, her work was featured in the New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum, New York, and in 2022, at the Whitney Biennial, Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Salane has engaged in residential fellowships at The Villa Medici in Rome, Italy, and Pompeii Commitment, Archeologie Matters, Pompeii, Italy.
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