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One Fine Show: “Arthur Jafa, The White Album” at the Hammer Museum
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See all of our newslettersBrown’s face, and Jafa’s market, sneaks into his video The White Album (2018), which is part of the Venice show and also currently on view as its own exhibition at the Hammer Museum.
In fact, if one could fault the Venice exhibition at all, it’s that one runs the risk of being overwhelmed.
From there Jafa moves to Dylann Roof exiting Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston after his mass murder there.
His hyperawareness of the casual systems of oppression makes it difficult for anyone to talk, or write, about his work.
As ever, you really have to hand it to Gavin Brown, whose solemn face appears in the video as a complicated tribute.