ICA Los Angeles

"sisters and brothers" presents a selection of early video works from artists Jaguar Mary (Jocelyn Taylor), Cauleen Smith, and Ayanna U’Dongo from 1993 to 2001. The works in sisters and brothers cover a constellation of subjectshttps://artmap.com/edit/venue/_q3o7b/exhibitions: pleasure and desire; gender and its varied performance; power relations and the body; familial relationships and informal kinships, and violence enacted as a response to sexual or gender difference. The show revisits a critical time for the medium—marking the ebb of magnetic tape video and rise of multiple forms of digital video. This period also marks the coinage of the contentious term “identity politics,” which framed much of the art produced in the early 1990s by people of color, women, and the LGBTQ community.