Arthur Jafa, Untitled, 2023, Archival Pigment Inkjet Print, image size 6 x 5 inches, paper size 11 x 8.5 inches, Signed and numbered, Edition of 25, $1000
Jafa offers a magnified portrait of a motif from a previous 2017 work titled LeRage. The original sculpture depicts a life-size standing cutout image of a grayscale Hulk, evoking the artist's childhood fascination with comics and print ephemera, while also playing with notions of power and scale. This new work revisits LeRage and juxtaposes the tightly cropped image of the figure's face with emphatic surrounding negative space. Arthur Jafa creates work that approximates the radical power, beauty, and alienation of Black life in the West, while seeking to make visible (or emancipate) the power embedded in modes of African expression.
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