Rose Ras

A student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris since 2019, young visual artist Rose Ras expresses herself as much through painting as sculpture. Originally from Haiti, her work is rooted in memories of her childhood: landscapes and architecture form the themes of her first canvases.

For Rose, creation has become her preferred mode of expression and introspection. Freeing herself from her traumas through a multidisciplinary approach, she never ceases to reinvent the subjects that have left an indelible imprint on her memory.

In Private Choice's 2023 selection, the road is the central theme: tires take over Nature, which is mutated by Man and his mechanical interventions. The subject of temporality is given pride of place, with industrial and natural elements constantly cohabiting in his compositions.

Her relationship with material adds a symbolic dimension to her production. The material with which Rose Ras experiments is none other than the tire: created to resist, rubber ends up being mastered by the artist to merge with an antinomic and natural material, made of clay. Trained in ceramics and carving, Rose's taste for glazed surfaces is readily apparent.

In the series Au ras du solseries, the use of liquid tar on his small-format canvases is yet another way of inviting the theme of the road into his work. In contrast to this thick, matte material, the glazed appearance of the resin paint is almost sandstone-like.

The star piece of the selection, named Decelerationis a white ceramic tire mold, studded with rows of teeth. The German philosopher Hartmut Rosa inspired the artist to create this ambiguous sculpture, in which the robustness of the automobile, designed for speed, is confronted by the slow growth of the human skeleton.