Tony Cokes, Installation view, Evil, Mediation, and Power, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, 2018. Courtesy the artist, Greene Naftali, New York and Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles.
Tony Cokes
Opening of If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late: Vol.1, an exhibition by Tony Cokes featuring work from 1990 onwards, and including two new commissions.
Cokes’ video works are eviscerating critiques and affective art works, bringing together colour theory, sound, music, and texts quoting a polyphony of voices such as Louis Althusser, Malcolm X, David Bowie, Public Enemy and Donald Trump. Meeting political and social commentary with cultural theory and a critique of capitalism, Cokes’ films viscerally confront the social condition, as well as the specific prejudices and threats suffered by black subjects. Recent works range across minimal techno, the Bush administration’s use of colour to engender a perpetual culture of fear, and music used to torture detainees during the so-called ‘war on terror’.
Opening of If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late: Vol.1, an exhibition by Tony Cokes featuring work from 1990 onwards, and including two new commissions.
Cokes’ video works are eviscerating critiques and affective art works, bringing together colour theory, sound, music, and texts quoting a polyphony of voices such as Louis Althusser, Malcolm X, David Bowie, Public Enemy and Donald Trump. Meeting political and social commentary with cultural theory and a critique of capitalism, Cokes’ films viscerally confront the social condition, as well as the specific prejudices and threats suffered by black subjects. Recent works range across minimal techno, the Bush administration’s use of colour to engender a perpetual culture of fear, and music used to torture detainees during the so-called ‘war on terror’.
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