Ja’Tovia Gary
02 Feb - 17 May 2020
Hammer Projects: Ja'Tovia Gary, installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2020. Photo: Jeff McLane
Hammer Projects: Ja'Tovia Gary, installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2020. Photo: Jeff McLane
Hammer Projects: Ja'Tovia Gary, installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2020. Photo: Jeff McLane
Hammer Projects: Ja'Tovia Gary, installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2020. Photo: Jeff McLane
Hammer Projects: Ja'Tovia Gary, installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2020. Photo: Jeff McLane
Hammer Projects: Ja'Tovia Gary, installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2020. Photo: Jeff McLane
Ja'Tovia Gary, THE GIVERNY SUITE (still), 2019. Three-channel video installation. Dimensions variable. Color, black-and-white, sound, 41 min. (loop). Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. © Ja’Tovia Gary, courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Ja’Tovia Gary, THE GIVERNY SUITE (still), 2019. Three-channel video installation. Dimensions variable. Color, black-and-white, sound, 41 min. (loop). Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. © Ja’Tovia Gary, courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Ja’Tovia Gary, THE GIVERNY SUITE (still), 2019. Three-channel video installation. Dimensions variable. Color, black-and-white, sound, 41 min. (loop). Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. © Ja’Tovia Gary, courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Hammer Projects:
Ja'Tovia Gary
Filmed on location in Harlem, New York, and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, THE GIVERNY SUITE is a multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Ja’Tovia Gary (b. 1984, Dallas) unleashes an arsenal of techniques and materials, including direct animation on archival 16mm film, woman-on-the-street interviews, and montage editing, 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.
Hammer Projects: Ja’Tovia Gary is organized by Erin Christovale, associate curator, with Vanessa Arizmendi, curatorial assistant.
Hammer Projects are single-gallery exhibitions highlighting the work of contemporary artists from around the globe, often presenting new work at a pivotal moment of an artist’s development. Ongoing since 1999, Hammer Projects is a signature series within the Hammer’s exhibition program.
Ja'Tovia Gary
Filmed on location in Harlem, New York, and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, THE GIVERNY SUITE is a multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Ja’Tovia Gary (b. 1984, Dallas) unleashes an arsenal of techniques and materials, including direct animation on archival 16mm film, woman-on-the-street interviews, and montage editing, 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.
Hammer Projects: Ja’Tovia Gary is organized by Erin Christovale, associate curator, with Vanessa Arizmendi, curatorial assistant.
Hammer Projects are single-gallery exhibitions highlighting the work of contemporary artists from around the globe, often presenting new work at a pivotal moment of an artist’s development. Ongoing since 1999, Hammer Projects is a signature series within the Hammer’s exhibition program.