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Arthur Jafa: AGHDRA onsite at RHAMESJAFACOSEYJAFADRAYTON / OGR Torino. 2022

Because Love is the Message, the Message is Death

He said these were the ones giving him pain.

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Important Book Alert... #Repost @cahiersdart ・・・ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁠ For Art Newspaper’s Book Club, Gareth Harris has excerpted from the Arthur Jafa Revue a conversation between Jafa and fellow artist Mark Leckey. In the conversation, Jafa describes the ‘state’ he was in when he made ‘Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death’ and how the work came about: “So, my state, in the face of what seemed like a tsunami of footage of Black people getting killed... Which is strange because Black people are always getting killed, and it’s something Black people have always known in America. … At a certain point I did stand up and say, “I don’t want to speak for all Black people, but I can say with a lot of confidence: nothing about these images surprises any Black person.” You know what I mean? We didn’t need a picture or video to know this kind of shit was and is going on, our whole history has been this way. And if it hasn’t happened to you directly, it’s like seven degrees of separation, gestalt trauma. There’s not a single person I know who doesn’t know someone intimately it’s happened to, or some version of it. Even if it’s just what’s termed “micro aggression,” it’s a tsunami of micro aggression, you know what I mean? So, I was like, “This is kind of absurd.” So, when YouTube comes online (along with Facebook, WorldStarHipHop), a certain threshold is crossed in terms of folks having video in their phones and given the frequency and intensity of this extrajudicial, state-sanctioned violence towards Black folks, of course, it was a perfect storm. And it seemed like every other week there was new footage of somebody being murdered.” Read the full article at the link in our bio, and shop the Jafa Revue by tapping the images above. 📷 Gaëtane Girard [1/4/5/6/7/9/10] & Arthur Jafa/Gladstone Gallery [2/3] @anamibia @theartnewspaper @staffanahrenberg #arthurjafa #jafa #loveisthemessagethemessageisdeath #markleckey #wednesdayreads #artbook #larevuedescahiersdart #cahiersdart https://www.instagram.com/p/CImRZ8jJrV7/?igshid=oc9m21lvix1f

Love is the Message, The Message is Death (Jafa, 2016)