Serralves online offers Walk and Talk Experience

SOLE - WALK AND TALK IN SERRALVES is a series of video streaming of guided journeys to Serralves. Get to know exhibitions, the architectural and natural heritage of Serralves Foundation, and much more. The first series is the exhibition by Arthur Jafa, on show at the Serralves Museum and at Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira. 

Take this weekend at home to WALK AND TALK IN SERRALVES. Access is done via www.serralves.pt, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

The American video artist and cinematographer, Arthur Jafa, inaugurated his latest exhibition in the Serralves Foundation, on 20th February 2020.

The exhibition themed "A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions (Featuring Ming Smith, Frida Orupabo and Missylanyus), is on show in Serralves, from 21th February till 21st June this year.

Philippe Vergne leads visitors in a journey to know some of the most iconic works by Jafa, namely Monster, the artist's self-portrait, the sculpture Ex Slave Gordon, the piece Big Wheel, APEX, the Unbalanced and the visual reading of the 36 picture books.

Love is the message, the message is death, is the film on show at Casa do Cinema, presented by António Preto, and it provides in-depth knowledge about Jafa's work.

This is the perfect opportunity to discover or to revisit this relevant exhibition by Arthur Jafa.

About Arthur Jafa

Jafa, who won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennial 2019, with his film "The White Album", takes to Serralves different projects developed in the scope of audio-visual and sculpture areas, addressing issues such as gender, social class and skin colour, and the way these elements influence daily life in the USA. 

As a child, Arthur Jafa assembled binders full of found images in collections he called "the books", and he grew up watching "I spy" and other science fiction programs. These have influenced his artistic practice as an adult, notably in his self-portrait "LeRage," (2017). His work was also inspired by his interest in prominent black jazz music and musicians such as Miles Davis.

Arthur Jafa has exhibited in venues such as The Hirshhorn Museum of Contemporary Art, in Los Angeles, and the Julia Stoschek Collection Museum in Düsseldorf, Germany, just to mention a few.

The artist co-founded TNEG along with Malik Sayeed, a "motion picture studio whose goal is to create a black cinema as culturally, socially, and economically central to the 21st century as was black music to the 20th century" and has also worked on a number of music videos, namely as the director of photography on videos for Solange's Don't Touch My Hair and Cranes in the Sky.