air above mountains, unknown pleasures

In his first solo exhibition in New York City since 2000 Arthur Jafa expansively extends his exploration of ontological Blacknuss* as a generative and pluripontantial phenomenon—one capable of addressing the social stresses weight, fissures and breaks of being Black—and concomitantly, Black Being and Thingification—in the world.


The range of media and sculptural forms utilized in the exhibition builds on Jafa’s ongoing, revelatory pursuit and mastery of lyrical expressive means to represent the recorded presence of shock, horror, trauma, transcendence and transgressive impulses in the history, performance and existential grip, of Blacknuss...