In London, Pilar Corrias Gallery is hosting the new exhibition Slips by Rachel Rose, one of contemporary art’s most poetic narrators. Rose examines the ancient relationship between human experience and nature, and how this relationship has transformed over time into a consciousness, a narrative, and even a system of belief. Her production flows between scales that touch one another like film frames: as close as toys scattered on the floor of a child’s room, as distant as the silence of space. Both extremes open onto the same question — how does landscape shape the human, and how does the human transform the landscape?
In Rose’s paintings from recent years, a sense of rupture inspired by 18th- and 19th-century English landscape painting stands out. The rift opened by the Industrial Revolution in the soil, the atmosphere, and perception echoes anew in her canvases. Burning forests, cut earth, fragments of nature that change form and become abstract… In Rose’s brush, nature is no longer a romantic refuge; it is the bearer of a historical trauma, a layer of consciousness that conceals the traces of human action.
In her new series Slips, the artist deepens this rupture even further. Landscape is no longer merely a physical ground; it is a psychoanalytic space. Stains that open with color transitions recall Freud’s “leakages of the unconscious.” Each painting becomes a surface where the repressed, the tension between nature and body, becomes visible. Rose, at this point, performs the psychoanalysis of nature: repressed emotions, broken boundaries, remain like traces in the memory of the soil.
Rose’s narration recalls the silent intensity pursued in No:26: a space standing between the echoes of the past and today’s technological forms of observation, where the human must analyze itself in order to understand nature. Slips, in this sense, is both an inner landscape and a map of time. Each canvas is an interval, a “slip” — meaning both slippage and seepage — filtering between the visible and the intuitive.
Rachel Rose invites the viewer to stand on this slippery threshold between nature and human: where meaning is not fixed, where the image dissolves itself, where color turns into emotion. Slips is not merely a painting exhibition, but a practice of thought; a call that reminds us that when the human looks at nature, it is actually looking at itself.
📍 Pilar Corrias
🗓️ 7 November 2025 – 17 January 2026
📍 Pilar Corrias Gallery London
