Jenn Nkiru
  • Jenn Nkiru 'Rebirth Is Necessary' 2017.

  • Jenn Nkiru 'Rebirth Is Necessary' 2017.

  • Jenn Nkiru 'Rebirth Is Necessary' 2017.

  • Jenn Nkiru 'Rebirth Is Necessary' 2017.

  • Jenn Nkiru 'Rebirth Is Necessary' 2017.

  • Jenn Nkiru 'Rebirth Is Necessary' 2017.

  • Jenn Nkiru 'Rebirth Is Necessary' 2017.

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Jenn Nkiru

Rebirth Is Necessary

14 May–9 July 202214 May–9 Jul 2022

#RebirthIsNecessary

Rebirth Is Necessary explores the magic and dynamism of Blackness. Jenn Nkiru is an award-winning visionary artist and director. Her works are grounded in the history of black music, experimental-film aesthetics, international art cinema, the black arts movement, and the rich, variegated, experimental tradition of  black diaspora cinema. Pushed through her Afro-surrealist lens, past, present, and future are rethought and reordered, creating something soulful and mind-bendingly visceral.

Artist Bio
Jenn Nkiru
UK

Jenn Nkiru was selected for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. In 2020, she was co-recipient of the Jarman Award. In 2021, she won the Grammy for Best Music Video for Beyonce’s ‘Brown Skin Girl’. It also received a CICLOPE Award, Soul Train Music Award, NAACP Image Award, and Cannes Lion. Her latest piece, Out/Side of Time, commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, opened in 2021, as part of their exhibition Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room.

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