“Reifying Desire” by Jacolby Satterwhite (2013)

In “Reifying Desire” (2013) Jacolby Satterwhite continues his practice of embedding live action in surreal CGI dreamscapes. He dons skintight space-age getups, performing choreographed movements combining vogue culture and martial arts. Artifacts from the artist’s childhood (his mother’s drawings and products she purchased on home shopping channels) are transposed into a hyper-sexual technological utopia.

“Satterwhite’s video constructs a magical arena in which to imagine a new spatial awareness, one that responds to the shifting relationships between the life of the mind, the world of images, and the physical realm of bodies and objects.” — Whitney Museum of Art

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