Carol Rhodes
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
2 February – 5 May 2024
Carol Rhodes, Inlet (detail), 1997 © Carol Rhodes Estate
Alison Jacques is pleased to announce the opening of Carol Rhodes’ solo exhibition at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin. Curated by Beatrice Hilke, the exhibition brings together a selection of paintings from 1993 to 2015 and includes some of the artist’s drawings, rarely exhibited during her lifetime.
Rhodes devoted her practice primarily to a type of landscape that generally receives little attention: post-industrial areas criss-crossed by landfills, airports, highways, or reservoirs that evoke the unstoppable flow of material and labour. Human activity is tangible everywhere in her images, yet people themselves do not feature. This oscillation between a diffuse presence and absence — between the supposedly recognisable and the abstract — is characteristic of Rhodes’s work. Though based on experiences and impressions of the real world, her paintings can be described as fictional syntheses composed from different sources.