HARDCORE / LOVE
Conditions present the free exhibition HARDCORE / LOVE.
For the first time, Arthur Jafa’s video “Love is the Message, The Message is Death” (2016) will be shown alongside Mark Leckey’s “Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore” (1999) widely considered as two of the most important moving-image artworks of the past thirty years.
HARDCORE / LOVE will offer visitors a unique chance to experience two landmark artworks which combine video, music and montage. Made over 15 years apart, both works use the emotional and physical experience of music, along with a process of video editing that cuts fragments of images to create artworks that are social, political and personal.
Arthur Jafa (American, b. 1960) is an artist, filmmaker and cinematographer, whose work references and questions the universal and specific articulations of black being. Jafa won the Golden Lion at the 58th Venice Biennale.
Mark Leckey (b.1964, Birkenhead) is known for his innovative work at the intersection of video, sound and popular culture. Leckey won the prestigious Turner Prize in 2008. He explores themes linked to memory, technology and the impact of cultural objects on our identities.
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