May 6 — June 18, 2021
New York: 64th Street
The host of unlikely marriages, transposed identities, and disparate doppelgangers that populate Arthur Jafa’s oeuvre come to full clarity in his new body of sculptures. Composed of industrial materials such as rubber tubing, aluminum beams, and steel pipes that are embellished with lengths of fur, chains, feathers and languidly draped bags, these objects reckon with the instrumentalization of the black body while shielding it with sartorial excess. Alluding to what Jafa calls “glamouring,” these sculptures simultaneously reference the burdensome machinations of double consciousness while also contending with the duplicity synonymous with glamour itself.

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Arthur Jafa(出生于1960年,密西西比州图佩洛)是一位艺术家、电影制片人和摄影师。在过去的三十年里,Jafa发展了一个充满活力的实践,包括影片、文物和事件,这些作品涉及并质疑了黑人存在的普遍和具体表达。Jafa实践的许多方面都强调了一个反复出现的问题:视觉媒体,如物体、静态和动态图像,如何传达在美国文化中形式黑人音乐中蕴藏的“力量、美丽和疏离”。
Jafa的影片在洛杉矶、纽约和黑星电影节上获得了好评,他的艺术作品在世界各地的著名收藏中被代表。2019年,他获得了第58届威尼斯双年展“愿你生活在有趣的时代”最佳参展人金狮奖。
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