Jacolby Satterwhite
@ Conversations at the Edge
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, November 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
Jacolby Satterwhite combines dance, 3D animation, and the family archive in vast digital phantasmagorias that explore memory, desire, and black gay identity. He often incorporates his mother’s own creative output into his work: her drawings serve as neon-like signs in his groundbreaking series “Reifying Desire” (2012–14), and her voice is the sonic backbone of his recent “Birds of Paradise” (2016). Satterwhite brings his mother’s work into a dizzying and ever-shifting constellation of references—from science fiction to Renaissance painting—radically queering and re-contextualizing personal narratives and canonical histories. In his first Chicago appearance, Satterwhite presents selections from “Reifying Desire” and new work. Introduced and moderated by Dr Omar Kholeif, Manilow Senior Curator at MCA Chicago.
Jacolby Satterwhite (b. Columbia, South Carolina) is a multidisciplinary artist who uses video, performance, 3D animation, drawing, fibers, and printmaking to explore themes of memory, desire, and personal and public mythology. His work has been exhibited widely, including at the 9th Berlin Biennale, 2014 Whitney Biennial, and recent shows at Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Mallorca Landings, Mallorca, Spain; and OHWOW Gallery, Los Angeles. Satterwhite is a recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and an Art Matters grant. His works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Seattle Art Museum, and Studio Museum in Harlem, among others, and distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), NY. Satterwhite lives in New York.
2012–16, USA, multiple formats, ca 90 min + discussion
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