Concentrations 64: Ja’Tovia Gary, I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD brings together five artworks and related ephemera created by the Dallas-native filmmaker and visual artist over the past three years. Showcasing glowing neon script, a newly commissioned sculpture, film sourced from the artist’s family archives, and paintings, this multimedia installation is an evocative memoir that celebrates the power of ancestral knowledge.
Ja’Tovia Gary’s interdisciplinary practice uses film, installation, and language via a Black feminist subjective lens to challenge the supposed neutrality of archival sources and the historical record. Often employing intimate and politically charged subject matter, her work subverts the dominant narratives found in mainstream storytelling and visual culture.
Admission is free.
Images: Installation view of Precious Memories, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 2020. Photo by Steven Probert. Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Installation view of Precious Memories, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 2020. Photo by Steven Probert. Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Installation view of Citational Ethics, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 2020. Photo by Steven Probert. Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
Concentrations 64: Ja’Tovia Gary, I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD is organized by the Dallas Museum of Art. General Admission to the Dallas Museum of Art is made possible with generous support from the Robert Gerard Pollock Foundation. The Dallas Museum of Art is supported, in part, by the generosity of DMA Members and donors, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.