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In the immersive video APEX, on view through this corridor, Jafa organizes a fast-paced sequence of images. Set to a driving soundtrack of electronic club beats, creates pairings and contrasts whereby heroes and villains, history and present all become enmeshed in what Jafa has termed “spooky entanglements.” Arthur Jafa. APEX. 2013.
Arthur Jafa: Works from the MCA Collection surveys the artist’s output over roughly the last ten years through a selection of artworks held in the MCA’s collection, including his videos APEX (2013), Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death (2016), The White Album (2018), and akingdoncomethas (2018). Accompanying the videos are a few key ...
18 paź 2020 · In his eight-minute video APEX, Arthur Jafa pieces together hundreds of digital photographs, graphics, and film stills to form a single overwhelming visual collage. Set to a minimalist beat by Detroit techno pioneer Robert Hood, the video shows a sequence of 841 still images, pulling the viewer in with their rapid tempo and scope.
Jafa’s extensive research into black culture and his theories surrounding a ‘black aesthetic’ led him to produce APEX, an eight-minute video comprised of hundreds of images – objects, people, moments, and events – which race by against an apocalyptic soundscape.
Arthur Jafa tell us about APEX a video installation Images rain down like a hail of bullets, 841 in 492 seconds, almost all motionless, projected to a backdrop of hypnotic techno pulses and loop-ing, syncopated electrocardiogram beeps.
In 2023, Jafa was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for his 2022 exhibition "Live Evil" at LUMA Arles in Arles, France. His work was featured alongside fellow Prize nominees Bieke Depoorter , Samuel Fosso , and Frida Orupabo at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, which opened in March 2023.
27 lis 2019 · This summer, we traveled to Jafa’s studio in Los Angeles to talk with him about APEX and the notebooks, which are now on view at MoMA in the exhibition Surrounds: 11 Installations. This film also appears as part of MoMA’s free online course What Is Contemporary Art? on Coursera.
