Rosie Brock

United States

About the series

The humid climate and flat landscape of Gulf Coast Florida served as the backdrop to my childhood, before my family moved to Virginia when I was entering adolescence. After high school I relocated to New York City to pursue my undergraduate degree and while doing so I began to investigate my own subjectivity and complex relationship with the cultural space I originate from. For three years I took trips and spent summers in the South in order to create a body of work focused on this region. The act of revisiting with a newfound critical distance allowed me to explore the schism between the deep-seated mythologies associated with the South and how it exists contemporarily.