‘Body De—’ gentian rhosa – Sharing Event Mar 2025
Join us at Market Gallery on March 1st 6-8pm for the sharing event of ‘Body De—’, an ongoing project by gentian rhosa. This event showcases work developed during the Market Caregivers Studio Residency, featuring both physical installation, sound and a reading of written work.
This sharing will include a reading between 6.30-7pm. We will also be open on Sunday 2nd on a drop- in basis 12am-4pm, with the text available in the space. Pamphlets including the text will be available for sale for £5 or pay what you can, with all proceeds going to Palestine Action.
The event will take place in our space at 13 Ross Street, which is wheelchair accessible and has an accessible gender-neutral toilet. We have travel and childcare bursaries available, please get in touch on market@marketgallery.org to request them.
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Extract
It is challenging to honour descent in a culture that primarily values ascent. To descend was to become unknown, to fall away.
In grief, we are brought to our knees, brought closer to the earth. I was digging up our roots so I could inspect them more closely, their fingers being revealed to me, ragged and multiple.
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‘Body De—’ traces the undoing of the artist’s subjectivity alongside the changing state of her mother’s decomposing body. As the body transforms underground, so too does the living world. The artist’s dialogue with her mother traces spiritual questions, political reckonings, her relationship with grief, negotiations with timelessness and molecular processes of decay.
Utilising defunct and found materials, detritus, signifiers of memorial, tape loops and personal artefact, the installation will materially explore multiple formsprocesses of de-composition.
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gentian rhosa is an artist and writer working with sound, text and performance. Their practice takes shape through public text, publications, sound installation, radio, performance and video. Rooted in personal experiences of loss, their long-term interests include death, absence, grief and psychology. Recently, their exploration of these themes has extended into broader socio-political concerns such as public mourning, climate collapse and the privatisation of grief — considering where death, grief and emotional life rub up against culture, capitalism and history.