Hammer Projects: Ja'Tovia Gary
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Filmed on location in Harlem, New York, and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, THE GIVERNY SUITE is a multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Ja’Tovia Gary (b. 1984, Dallas) unleashes an arsenal of techniques and materials, including direct animation on archival 16mm film, woman-on-the-street interviews, and montage editing, to explore the creative virtuosity of Black femme performance figures while interrogating the histories of those bodies as spaces of forced labor and commodified production.
Hammer Projects: Ja’Tovia Gary is organized by Erin Christovale, associate curator, with Vanessa Arizmendi, curatorial assistant.
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Ja'Tovia Gary, THE GIVERNY SUITE (still), 2019Three-channel video installation. Dimensions variable. Color, black-and-white, sound, 41 min. (loop). Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. © Ja’Tovia Gary, courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York -
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Ja’Tovia Gary, THE GIVERNY SUITE (still), 2019Three-channel video installation. Dimensions variable. Color, black-and-white, sound, 41 min. (loop). Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. © Ja’Tovia Gary, courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York -
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Ja’Tovia Gary, THE GIVERNY SUITE (still), 2019Three-channel video installation. Dimensions variable. Color, black-and-white, sound, 41 min. (loop). Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. © Ja’Tovia Gary, courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York -
Hammer Projects: Ja'Tovia GaryInstallation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 2–May 17, 2020. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Hammer Projects: Ja'Tovia GaryInstallation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 2–May 17, 2020. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Hammer Projects: Ja'Tovia GaryInstallation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 2–May 17, 2020. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Hammer Projects: Ja'Tovia GaryInstallation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 2–May 17, 2020. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Hammer Projects: Ja'Tovia GaryInstallation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 2–May 17, 2020. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Hammer Projects: Ja'Tovia GaryInstallation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 2–May 17, 2020. Photo: Jeff McLane
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