Zoë Buckman: Show Me Your Bruises, Then
Join artist Zoë Buckman for the virtual premiere of her new video work, Show Me Your Bruises, Then (2021-2022), followed by a conversation with Rose Director and Chief Curator Dr. Gannit Ankori. Written, directed, and performed by Buckman and featuring actors Cush Jumbo and Sienna Miller, this 17-minute, three-channel film is her first major filmic work and explores the multigenerational impact of domestic violence and the silence imposed on women’s bodies.
The screening and conversation will consider Show Me Your Bruises, Then, in relation to Buckman’s sculpture, According to Grandma (2019), currently on view in Fabricated Imaginaries: Crafting Art, as well as recent projects examining the Jewish female experience in domestic spaces, inviting audiences into a thoughtful and compassionate dialogue about art, storytelling, and social change.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Zoë Buckman (b. 1985, London, UK) is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, textiles, lens-based media, ceramics, neon, and painting, exploring themes of intersectional feminism, mortality, and equality. She studied at the International Centre of Photography (ICP) in New York and was awarded an Art Matters Grant in 2017. Solo and group exhibitions include She's a Knockout: Sport, Gender, and the Body in Contemporary Art, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL; Reclamation, Various Small Fires, Dallas, TX (2024); Resistance Training: Arts Sports, and Civil Rights, MSU Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI (2023-24); Real Families: Stories of Change, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK (2023-24); TENDED, Lyles & King, NY (2023); and Thread Routes, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong (2023). In 2022, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery presented Buckman’s first UK solo show, BLOODWORK. Collections include National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; and Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
This program is held in conjunction with the exhibition Fabricated Imaginaries: Crafting Art, August 20, 2025–May 31, 2026.