Jeffrey Gibson: Nothing is Eternal
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
October 22 – December 12, 2020
Jeffrey Gibson presents Nothing is Eternal, a newly commissioned video with musical composition. Conceived during this pandemic era, the immersive video work depicts the American flag in unsettling stillness, as a marker of territory, and projected onto bodies, while set to a heartrending soundtrack. At once melancholic and beautiful, Gibson renders the iconic image of the flag as both elastic and unyielding. The slow transformation through time, color, and form reflects both a distillation of our social collapse and the reinvention of self and community, referencing the movement and change that is so desired for this nation.
Jeffrey Gibson: Nothing is Eternal may be viewed online on the Wattis homepage through December 12. For more information, click here.