HARDCORE / LOVE

28 Jun-10 Aug 2025

PV 28 Jun 2025, 11am-6pm

Arthur Jafa, Love is the Message, The Message is Death, 2016, Video. Credit: Courtesy of the artist, Gladstone Gallery, Sprüth Magers, Sadie Coles HQ

Overview

For the first time, Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message, The Message is Death (2016)  will be shown alongside Mark Leckey’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) - widely considered as two of the most important moving-image artworks of the past thirty years. The exhibition is in the Conditions space in the Whitgift Centre, Croydon.

HARDCORE / LOVE will offer visitors a unique chance to experience two landmark artworks which combine video, music and montage. Made over 15 years apart, both works use the emotional and physical experience of music, along with a process of video editing that cuts fragments of images to create artworks that are social, political and personal.

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