Against domestication: a review of D Rosen's exhibition “Elemental Impressions of Interspecies Care, of Violence”

D Rosen’s primary artistic mediums are their own time and labor, expended in service of “cultivating interspecies friendships.” Rosen’s “day jobs” as an animal caretaker (farmworker, pet sitter, etc.) allow them to both observe and bond with nonhuman animals, who then act as source material, collaborators, and activators of the artist’s practice. This significant investment of the artist’s most precious resource (hours in the day) explains how they are able to mount two solo shows in three months (a new body of work on vampire bats will debut at Comfort Station in November)...