This summer, Ruby City is bringing one of contemporary art’s most fearless voices back to San Antonio.
This Saturday, the arts center will debut a major solo exhibition of South African artist Tracey Rose that will revisit her formative Artpace residency, which helped shape her groundbreaking multidisciplinary practice.
At the center of the show is TKO (2000), Rose’s video performance created at Artpace after two years of boxing training in Johannesburg. The piece is a raw meditation on violence and resistance that lands with sharp relevance in today’s political climate.
Also on display will be a suite of 62 drawings made during the same period, many being exhibited for the first time. Rose describes the works, whose dense marks and fragmented figures read like psychological maps, as attempts to “decode or anticipate future events.”
The exhibit, which runs through May 9 of next year, reveals the full force of Rose’s practice as it’s grown over the past two decades, including its examination of identity, power, race and the body.
On opening day, visitors are invited to a gallery walkthrough of the exhibition from 2-3 p.m. A public reception afterward will feature music by Strawberry James and catering by Sweet Yams. MOVE Texas will be on site to provide civil engagement resources to attendees.
Free, walkthrough and opening reception 2-5 p.m. Saturday, June 6 and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday-Sunday, Ruby City, 150 Camp St., (210) 227-8400, rubycity.org.
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