Isaac Julien's 2004 piece 'True North' will be on display through Jan. 29 of next year. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX SanAntonioArts ThingsToDoInSanAntonio RubyCityArt
Fantôme AfriqueWalking into the air-conditioned screening room inside Southtown's Ruby City contemporary art center can be a welcome respite from a scalding Texas morning. The chill air inside the venue isn't the only thing that's likely to drop visitors' body heat.
Playing on an endless loop on a triptych screen inside the theater is Black British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien's 2004 piecewhich will be on display through Jan. 29 of next year. Pulled into the onscreen imagery, it's easy to lose sense of the heat outside as a distant figure in black walks across a vast, icy landscape that extends across the room.
The film's experimental, sometimes machine-like score accentuates the crisp images that play across the screens: closeups of snow-covered faces staring back with somber expressions; a shapeless mass of ice sitting on an arctic shore; a frozen, glasslike chapel where one might go to pray for the warmth of the sun.
"In [my] multiple-screen work, you have the images juxtaposed to one another," Julien told Ruby City during an interview last year about his film installations."That creates a more poetic rendition with the story and allows the viewer to enter into a different form of receiving the images and identifying with them.", which also includes.
The most famous of their treks was in April 1909, which historians believe was the first time any explorer reached the northernmost point on the globe — known as"true north." Henson reached their destination first, followed by Peary and four Inuit assistants.] is like a documentary in that it gives viewers this historical information, but does it in a more artistic fashion," said Kelly O'Connor, Ruby City's head of collections and communications.
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