While her improvised, thrift - store DIY aesthetic smacks of the populism of this year's Whitney Biennial and her global themes and global identity (she is a black South African woman and an international artist) should have made her a shoe - in for Documenta XI, Rose's videos are ultimately as much
about her art practice — a fine combination of video,
performance, and photography — as
about any «issue» of identity or
globalization.