Cahiers d'Art - Arthur Jafa

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Arthur Jafa invited artists Mark Leckey, Dana Hoey, Torkwase Dyson, Frida Orupabo and Rashaad Newsome to engage in in-depth conversations on their artistic practice, race, digital culture, and many other topics, accompanied by a selection of their work. The issue also features excerpts from Arthur Jafa's notebooks with photomontages that he has been keeping since the 1990s together with new work and a text by the artist. Also selected are works by photographer Man Ray and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Saidiya Hartman, as well as the short story Milk of Paradise by New Wave science fiction author James Tiptree Jr.

Arthur Jafa (Tupelo, Mississippi, 1960) is an American artist, director and cinematographer. He studied at Howard University, Washington D.C., and has worked as cinematographer on major films including Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Spike Lee's Crooklyn (1994), John Akomfrah's Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993) and as Director of Photography for Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust (1992), for which he won the award for Best Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival. He has also worked on music videos for Jay-Z and Solange. Exhibitions include Matrix 272 at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (2018), A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions at Serpentine Galleries, London (2017) Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (2018) and Moderna Museet (summer 2019). Arthur Jafa's work is in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington D.C.), Smithsonian Museum of American Art (Washington D.C.), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Museum of Modern Art (New York) and High Museum (Atlanta). Arthur Jafa is represented by Gavin Brown's Enterprise (New York). He won the Golden Lion, Venice Biennale 2019.