From December 1, 2017, through February 11, 2018, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture co-presented Playtime, an exhibition of three video installations by acclaimed British artist Sir Isaac Julien, in partnership with the Kramlich Collection and San Francisco Art Institute.
The exhibition occupied three galleries across the FMCAC campus:
Playtime (2014), a seven-screen installation featuring James Franco, Maggie Cheung, and Mercedes Cabral, received its U.S. premiere in Gallery 308.
KAPITAL (2013), a two-screen work documenting a conversation between Julien and social theorist David Harvey, was on view in the SFMOMA Artists Gallery.
Better Life (Ten Thousand Waves) (2010) inaugurated SFAI’s newly constructed Gray Box Gallery on the Fort Mason Campus.
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The exhibition was accompanied by public talks and educational programming at UC Berkeley, SFAI, Mills College, and UC Santa Cruz. At BAMPFA, Julien presented a screening of Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, followed by a conversation with co-director Mark Nash and scholar Judith Butler. At UC Santa Cruz, he appeared in conversation with film critic B. Ruby Rich.
Sir Isaac Julien (b. 1960, London) is an internationally acclaimed artist and filmmaker based in London. He became prominent in 1989 with his film, Looking for Langston, a poetic exploration of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. His gallery installations produce complex narratives reflecting critical thinking about race, globalization, and the politics of representation.
From December 1, 2017 to February 11, 2018, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC) presented Playtime, an ambitious exhibition of three recent video installations by award-winning British artist Sir Isaac Julien. FMCAC co-presented this exhibition with The Kramlich Collection & The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI).
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