Rose Haserodt: found in translation

Rose Haserodt's artistic practice constitutes an inquiry into and articulation of personal identity, emotional trajectory and one's place in the natural order that originates from anonymous, in-passing engagements with others. To begin her process, the artist captures candid photographic images of strangers, landscapes and architecture, prints them and uses them as the basis for meticulously composed three-dimensional collages, which ultimately provide the compositional basis for her paintings and oftentimes ambitiously scaled pastel drawings. Haserodt's cutting, bending and recombination of imagery creates visual disruptions and distortions that result in fragmented, hybridized figures, who, once decontextualized from specific time and place, find themselves alone in, yet strangely and increasingly in step with ambiguous settings very much unlike those in the photographic source images from which they originated. As the artist's visual protagonists navigate these often vibrant imaginary or, possibly, internal landscapes, they chart a challenging yet hopeful journey of self realization and emotional reckoning that is at once highly personal and universal.