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Installation view
Just Like Water, 2022
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Jacolby Satterwhite Just Like Water

Morán Morán is pleased to announce Jacolby Satterwhite’s exhibition titled Just Like Water. Presenting his seminal work, Birds in Paradise, this immersive installation is comprised of a six-part animated video work on two channels. One hundred and one minutes in length, and shown for the first time in its entirety, the animated piece is scored to Love will find a way home, an album by PAT – a collaboration between Satterwhite and Nick Weiss. PAT takes its name from Patricia Satterwhite, the artist’s mother, who left behind hundreds of a capella recordings. Accompanying the film, the installation includes a wall work that documents the full list of the album’s song titles, executed in neon tubing. All combined, Birds in Paradise unveils the five-year culmination of Satterwhite’s feature length anthology, which includes Blessed Avenue (2018); Avenue B (2018); Moments of Silence (2019); Birds in Paradise (2019); We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other (2020); and Shrines (2020). In addition to the installation, the exhibition includes three VR stations – each with a different virtual reality experience from Domestika (2017), We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, and Shrines, as well as pigment prints and new multi-colored neon works.

Jacolby Satterwhite (b. 1986, Columbia, SC) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (2008), and a MFA from the University of Pennsylvania (2012). In 2013, he was a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, and in 2016 he received the United States Artist: Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellowship. Recently, his work has show at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2021); Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (2021); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2021); Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2019); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2019); and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (2019). His work has also been included in exhibitions at many prestigious institutions, including the Bronx Museum, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX; Serralves Museum, Porta, Portugal; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; and the Fowler Art Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Satterwhite’s work is included in public collections at the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Seattle Art Museum, WA; Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.

Dates

February 12 - March 12, 2022

Opening Reception

Saturday, February 12, 6-8pm

Location

641 N WESTERN AVE
LOS ANGELES, CA 90004

Artist

Jacolby Satterwhite

Installation Views

All images: Just Like Water, 2022, installation views. Courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Just Like Water, 2022
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Just Like Water, 2022
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Just Like Water, 2022
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Just Like Water, 2022
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Just Like Water, 2022
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Just Like Water, 2022
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Just Like Water, 2022
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Just Like Water, 2022
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Just Like Water, 2022
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Artworks

Jacolby Satterwhite
Birds in Paradise, 2019
2-channel HD color suite of six videos and sound; Run time: 101 minutes
Neon: 72 x 55.5 inches (183 x 141.1 cm)
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Jacolby Satterwhite
Pygmalion’s Throne, 2020
UV pigment on aluminum
65 x 45 inches
(165.1 x 114.3 cm)
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Jacolby Satterwhite
Black Luncheon, 2020
UV pigment on aluminum
60 x 53 inches
(152.4 x 134.6 cm)
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Jacolby Satterwhite
Face Two Face, 2022
Neon
72 x 64.25 inches
(182.9 x 163.3 cm)
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Jacolby Satterwhite
Mami Wata’s Little Boat, 2022
Neon; looped video excerpt from Birds in Paradise (2018) on iPad
60 x 62 in
152.4 x 157.5 cm
(video 6:08 minutes)
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Jacolby Satterwhite
We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, 2020
VR, HD video, 3D animation, and sound
24 minutes and 22 seconds
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Jacolby Satterwhite
Shrines, 2017
VR, HD video, 3D animation, and sound
13 minutes and 37 seconds
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Jacolby Satterwhite
Domestika, 2017
VR, HD video, 3D animation, and sound
16 minutes and 5 seconds
Courtesy of Morán Morán