Marfa
RULE Gallery is pleased to present Ghost Keepers, a duo exhibition featuring works by Andrea Caretto and Shoshannah White. Together, their practices consider the material world as a site of memory and a witness to change—from global climate histories locked in ice and minerals to the intimate traces of a life carried through objects and touch. An opening reception, with the artists in attendance, will be held on Saturday, December 13, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the gallery, 204 E. San Antonio Street in Marfa.
Shoshannah White’s work looks to the planet as an archive. Her Mass Balance series includes cameraless photograms made in direct contact with ancient ice core samples from Greenland, North America and Antarctica, created inside the National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility freezer. These prints are paired with images documenting permafrost melt and methane-emitting lakes in Alaska—images that place the climate record held in ice against the climate in rapid flux. Additional works extend White’s interest in matter as recorder: photograms made through analog processes that blend melted glacier ice with coal collected on-site form synthetic landscapes where past and present collapse into one surface. Throughout, White explores deep time through visual narratives rooted in materiality and our connection to, and disconnection from the natural world.
Andrea Caretto approaches memory through the scale of the body and the domestic. Her pillars are vertical structures of plaster, concrete, and resin that embed worn clothing, family letters, linens, nests, pollen, and earth. While the pillar historically symbolizes strength and permanence, Caretto instead reveals the fragility of the human experience to show the power and potency of life, even in its dissolution. Cracks, edges, and worn surfaces betray the pressure of holding—the weight of the personal history sealed within. Borrowing from a language of construction and erosion, her sculptures oscillate between monument and archive. Each pillar becomes a time capsule, where the small artifacts of daily life operate as fossils of touch, care, commemoration, and loss.
Placed in dialogue, White and Caretto shape a macro–micro field of memory. White traces deep time and planetary records; Caretto houses the remnants of individual experience. Both turn to matter as a keeper of what would otherwise slip away, yet both point to the fragility of preservation—whether ice melts or letters crumble.
Ghost Keepers reflects on what the world holds, what we hold, and how time presses against both. The works will be on view through February 7, 2026, at RULE, which is open Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
