February 15 - April 25, 2020
Solo Exhibition; flesh that needs to be loved
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, USA
flesh that needs to be loved marks Ja’Tovia Gary’s inaugural exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery. The presentation includes the East Coast premiere of The Giverny Suite, 2019—an immersive, three-channel extension of her acclaimed forty-minute film, The Giverny Document (Single Channel), 2019—as well as the artist’s first-ever multimedia sculptural installation. Using a broad range of techniques such as direct animation, documentary, experimental film, video art, and cinema verité, Gary charts the ways structures of power shape our perceptions around representation, race, gender, sexuality, and violence. Her work seeks to liberate the distorted histories through which Black life is often viewed, while fleshing out a nuanced and multivalent Black interiority.
The Giverny Suite, 2019
Film, 39:56 minutes, three-channel installation, stereo sound, HD and SD video footage, color/black & white, 1920 x 1080, 16:9 aspect ratio, dimensions variable
Photo: Steven Probert