Jeu de Paume

Steffani Jemison

Sensus Plenior

17 Oct 2017 - 21 Jan 2018

Steffani Jemison
Sensus Plenior, 2017, photographie de tournage
Coproduction : Jeu de Paume, Paris, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques et CAPC musée d’art contemporain. Courtesy de l’artiste © Steffani Jemison
Steffani Jemison
Sensus Plenior, 2017, photographie de tournage
Coproduction : Jeu de Paume, Paris, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques et CAPC musée d’art contemporain. Courtesy de l’artiste © Steffani Jemison
Steffani Jemison
Sensus Plenior, 2017, photographie de tournage
Coproduction : Jeu de Paume, Paris, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques et CAPC musée d’art contemporain. Courtesy de l’artiste © Steffani Jemison
Steffani Jemison
Sensus Plenior, 2017, photographie de tournage
Coproduction : Jeu de Paume, Paris, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques et CAPC musée d’art contemporain. Courtesy de l’artiste © Steffani Jemison
Steffani Jemison
Sensus Plenior, 2017, photographie de tournage
Coproduction : Jeu de Paume, Paris, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques et CAPC musée d’art contemporain. Courtesy de l’artiste © Steffani Jemison
Steffani Jemison
Sensus Plenior, 2017, photographie de tournage
Coproduction : Jeu de Paume, Paris, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques et CAPC musée d’art contemporain. Courtesy de l’artiste © Steffani Jemison
Steffani Jemison
Master. Mime Ministry of Harlem, 2017, photographie de recherche
Courtesy de l’artiste © Steffani Jemison
Steffani Jemison, Eyes, Minds, Man, Thoughts, Novelties, Documentaries, Mountains, World, Demon, Diseases, High, Up, Anointing
2017. Dessins de recherche
Courtesy de l’artiste © Steffani Jemison
Steffani Jemison, Eyes, Minds, Man, Thoughts, Novelties, Documentaries, Mountains, World, Demon, Diseases, High, Up, Anointing
2017. Dessins de recherche
Courtesy de l’artiste © Steffani Jemison
Steffani Jemison, Eyes, Minds, Man, Thoughts, Novelties, Documentaries, Mountains, World, Demon, Diseases, High, Up, Anointing
2017. Dessins de recherche
Courtesy de l’artiste © Steffani Jemison
STEFFANI JEMISON
Sensus Plenior
Satellite 10 programme
17 October 2017 - 21 January 2018

Curator: Osei Bonsu

The work of New York-based artist Steffani Jemison is rooted in research and combines time-based media and discursive platforms to examine African-American culture. Exploring the limitations of language, Jemison’s work resists the logic of conventional storytelling to expose the entanglements of time, history and progress.
Her new commission Sensus Plenior [Latin for “Fuller Meaning”] considers the relationship between language, gesture and song in black gospel mime, focusing on the work and ideas of ordained minister Susan Webb and the Master Mime Ministry of Harlem. Through their elaborate and ecstatic choreography, gospel mime performers draw on dual genealogies that can be traced both to the revolutionary mime artist Marcel Marceau and West African dance traditions. In her videos, Jemison complicates the boundaries of performance and cinema, allowing the audience to become suspended outside structures of linear time and controlled meaning.