Résumé

La Serpentine Gallery présente le travail du cinéaste et artiste américain Arthur Jafa. En trois décennies, Jafa a développé une pratique multidisciplinaire allant des films et des installations aux conférences-performances et aux événements qui abordent, défient et remettent en question les hypothèses culturelles dominantes sur l'identité et la race 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?The publication builds upon Jafa’s image-based practice through the cutting and juxtaposing of visual sequences across its pages.