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Ja’Tovia Gary, Citational Ethics (Saidiya Hartman, 2017), 2020, neon, glass, wire, metal, 47 × 47 × 6".
ARTFORUM
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flesh that needs to be loved
flesh that needs to be loved, Ja'Tovia's inaugural show as an artist at Paula Cooper Gallery, opened on Feb 15, 2020 and will be open until - April 25, 2020.
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The Giverny Suite (2020)
Three Channel, 41 minsDirected, edited and animated by Ja'Tovia GaryProducers: Paige Wood, Artesia Balthrop, Ja'Tovia GaryCinematographer: Mia Cioffi HenrySound and music: Dyani Douze, Nelson Bandelaa SPELL NUMBER SEVEN production
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The Giverny Document (Single Channel), 2019
Filmed on location in Harlem, USA and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, The Giverny Document is a multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Filmmaker Ja’Tovia Gary unleashes an arsenal of techniques and materials including direct animation on archival 16mm film, woman on the street interviews, and montage editing techniques to explore the creative virtuosity of Black femme performance figures while interrogating the histories of those bodies as spaces of forced labor and commodified production.
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The Giverny Document (Single Channel), 2019
The Giverny Document (Single Channel) had its international festival premiere at Locarno Film Festival August 10, 2019, winning the Moving Ahead Award.
The film has subsequently shown at AFI Fest in Los Angeles, the Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Camden IFF, and Montreal RIDM, among others. The film received the 2019 Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics' Circle. Please check the Events page for upcoming screenings.
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