Event
Park Nights: Arthur Jafa
30 Jun 2017
Serpentine South Gallery
London, United Kingdom
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Love is the Message, The Message is Death (still), 2016; Video (colour, sound); 7 minutes 25 seconds; Courtesy: The Artist and Gavin Brown's enterprise (New York / Rome).
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Love is the Message, The Message is Death (still), 2016; Video (colour, sound); 7 minutes 25 seconds; Courtesy: The Artist and Gavin Brown's enterprise (New York / Rome).
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Arthur Jafa, still from Love is the Message, The Message is Death, 2016. Images courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome
Exhibition
Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions
8 Jun 2017 – 10 Sep 2017
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Admission free
Address
- Kensington Garden
- London
- W2 3XA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- South Kensington/Lancaster Gate
Event map
Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions
Serpentine Sackler Gallery
About
The Serpentine presents the work of the acclaimed US filmmaker, cinematographer and artist Arthur Jafa in his first solo UK exhibition. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic, multidisciplinary practice ranging from films and installations to lecture-performances and happenings that tackle, challenge and question prevailing cultural assumptions about identity and race. Jafa’s work is driven by a recurrent question: how might one identify and develop a specifically black visual aesthetics equal to the ‘power, beauty and alienation’ of black music in US culture?
