Arts centre Luma Arles has opened major exhibitions by two American multimedia artists, Arthur Jafa and Sky Hopinka. Each show, poignant and sometimes unsettling, tells the story of two experiences...
in ‘Live Evil’, Arthur Jafa – La M canique G n rale, Parc des Ateliers, Luma, Arles, France.is a departure for the artist, an abstract, computer-generated video he made in 2021. For 85 minutes, a digital ocean of black lava-like rocks moves and churns in undulating waves beneath an end-of-time sun, to the booming sounds of bass and music distorted by reverb. The effect is both suffocating and mesmerising, conjuring up thoughts of slave ships crossing the Atlantic, or the loss of civilisation.
If Jafa’s show is a punch in the gut, Sky Hopinka’s show takes us on a journey that can be equally as disturbing, yet in a softer vein. Hopinka was born in 1984, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño people. Best known for his experimental cinema, and increasingly for photography and poetry, he refers to his style as ‘ethnopoetic’.
‘The sun comes in whenever it wants’ is the title of this exhibition, which combines Hopinka’s personal story with the collective history of Indigenous people in the US. Examining identity and perception, his videos and photographs draw upon family recollections, interviews, and travel diaries. They are deeply meditative and technically masterful. in ‘The sun comes in whenever it wants’, Sky Hopinka – Les Forges, Parc des Ateliers, Luma, Arles, France. , his first experimental film, in 2013.
It takes several hours to properly visit both shows – which is only natural, as they are entire histories, told by voices from another America. §in ’The sun comes in whenever it wants’, Sky Hopinka– Les Forges, Parc des Ateliers, Luma, Arles, France. Arthur Jafa: ’Live Evil’ and Sky Hopinka: ’The sun comes in whenever it wants’, are now on view at Luma Arles.
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