Steffani Jemison | End Over End | JOAN Los Angeles
February 19 – April 30, 2022

JOAN
Bendix Building
1206 Maple Ave #715
Los Angeles, CA 90015

JOAN is pleased to present End Over End, an exhibition of recent videos and sculptures by Brooklyn-based, multi-disciplinary artist Steffani Jemison. Much of Jemison’s work is concerned with histories of Black performance in vernacular traditions such as pantomime and vaudeville, as well as the intersections of these practices with early film history. Drawing on movement research and the contents of the archive, her work bears witness to the ways in which knowledge is held and transferred from body to body, from the past to the present.

Many of the works in this exhibition were conceived during the recent period of pandemic and protest. Two videos, Toss (2021) and In Succession (2019), which incorporate rhythmic gymnastics and street acrobatics, respectively, are joined by a series of kinetic rock tumbler sculptures and drawings on glass that together consider the conceptual and material implications of the acts of agitation and turning.

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