The Story
March 18 — May 6, 2023
Seoul
Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the clouds, a Queen sat at her palace window, which had an ebony black frame, stitching her husband's shirts. While she was thus engaged and looking out at the snow she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell upon the snow. Now the red looked so well upon the white that she thought to herself, "Oh, that I had a child as white as this snow, as red as this blood, and as black as the wood of this frame!" Soon afterwards a little daughter came to her, who was as white as snow, and with cheeks as red as blood, and with hair as black as ebony, and from this she was named "Snow-White." And at the same time her mother died.
About a year afterwards the King married another wife, who was very beautiful, but so proud and haughty that she could not bear anyone to be better-looking than herself. She owned a wonderful mirror, and when she stepped before it and said:
"Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Who is the fairest of us all?"
it replied:
"The Queen is the fairest of the day."
Then she was pleased, for she knew that the mirror spoke truly.
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About
Rachel Rose (b. 1986, New York) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: The Last Day, Luma Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland (2025);The Last Day, Science Gallery, London (2024); Good Morning Midnight, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark (2023); The Last Day, LUMA Arles, Arles, France (2023); Rachel Rose, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (2023); Cave of Time, CC Strombeek, Grimbergen, Belgium (2022); Lake Valley, Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio (2022); Pond Society, Shanghai, China (2020); Rachel Rose, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, France (2020); Rachel Rose, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2019); and Enclosure, LUMA Foundation, Arles, Switzerland (2019). Group exhibitions include: Haus der Kunst, Munich (2025); Museé d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada (2025); Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2024); ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark (2023); Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2023); Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva, Switzerland (2023); 3rd Jeju Biennale, Korea (2022); 9th Beijing Biennale, China (2022); The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2022); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota (2022); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2021); and Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio (2021). Rose’s work is held in major public collections including: the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College; Julia Stoschek Foundation; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; LUMA Foundation; Musée d’Art Moderne; Ishikawa Foundation; Tate Modern; Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Dallas Museum of Art. She was the recipient of the Frieze Artist Award in 2015 and Illy Present Future Prize in 2014.
