A radical voice in the international art world since the mid 90s, Tracey Rose’s (b. 1974, South Africa) cutting and uncompromising vision will be on view in an exhibition that will include work created from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition, organized by the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, interrogates several themes including repatriation, recompense and reckoning that stem from post-colonial entanglements.

Shooting Down Babylon examines the wide-ranging mediums and concerns that are prevalent in Rose’s practice. The exhibition includes film, sculpture, photography, print, and painting, with the body and performativity central to every aspect. For Rose, the body, often her own body, is a site for protest, outrage, resistance and related discourse. Shooting Down Babylon traces her trajectory from earlier interests in expanding narrow identity tropes to the aesthetics of violence; her subversive performative interventions and recently an interest in processes of healing and rituality.