As part of the exhibit Optimal Conditions, Gericault De La Rose will be conducting a live performance accessible by live stream.

Primarily engaged in performance, De La Rose uses her brown body as an amulet against the plague of forgetting within a “post”-colonial world that reinforces the collective amnesia of cultural consciousness. Additionally, through video, sculpture, and fibers work, she investigates “objective” truths proposed by ethnographic anthropology, processes the cultural exchange between the Philippines and its colonizers, and interrogates the heritages claimed by nationalism. By exploring how her culture is consumed, digested, and regurgitated, she begins to unpack the oppressive constructs implanted within her country and people.

Bio:
Gericault De La Rose is a queer trans, multidisciplinary artist, educator, and drag queen. During her time at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she had the opportunity to work as a Co-curator of Philippine Objects at the Field Museum of Natural History where she helped organize a series of monthly events called Pamanang Pinoy using the objects within the collection as conduits for community discussion. After graduating with a BFA with an emphasis in Art History, she formed an artist collective, Export Quality, together with other Queer Filipinx alumni. As an emerging artist, De La Rose has had the opportunity to showcase her work in group shows in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Johnson City, New York, and Toronto. In collaboration with AFIRE Chicago, Export Quality was awarded the Crossroads Youth Fund for Cultural Change to support their documentary series Nakikita. De La Rose attended the ACRE residency in Steuben, Wisconsin having received the Brenda Green Gender Inclusivity Scholarship in 2018 and the HATCH artist resident for the Chicago Artist Coalition in 2020. De La Rose is currently an MFA candidate at UC Berkeley.