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Jibade-Khalil Huffman | Gelare Khoshgozaran | Sofía Reyes Guevara
SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE
On the High Line at 14th Street
Daily, starting at 5pm
SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE brings together Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Gelare Khoshgozaran, and Sofía Reyes Guevara, each of whom uses film as a form of poetic expression. The exhibition explores the human quest for meaning and connection amidst forces that feel beyond our control—climate change, politics, war, violence, colonial legacies, and feelings of isolation brought on by the digital age. Mirroring the unstructured charm of poetry, the artists layer moving image, sound, and literary verse to convey profound human emotions like melancholy, grief, anger, fear, and nostalgia. Infused with humor, ambiguity, and mysticism, these films together offer an earnest invitation of kinship and solidarity within our shared human experience.
Sofía Reyes Guevara’s film, SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE (2020), features a pulsing rolodex of statements, quirky manifestations, and to-do list items set to eerie techno beats. When displayed in quick succession, these elements evoke feelings of alienation and anxiety, heightened by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Reyes Guevara collected these text fragments over many years, and reorders them here to share a personal narrative rife with existential inquiry and disillusionment. As both the title and film suggest, the transience of emotions and an acceptance of perpetual change can be a source of hope for future connection.
The poet and artist Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s film, Free Jazz (2023), densely layers frenetic visuals from popular media and found videos on the internet—from weather reports, wrestling matches, and car crashes, to 3D game renderings and ASMR videos. The visual barrage is accompanied by poetic text drafted by Huffman, a collage of various music samples, and recordings of found dialogue, coalescing in an unsettling yet resonant portrayal of instances of calamity and the artist’s own struggles with depression.
Gelare Khoshgozaran’s film, To Keep the Mountain at Bay (2023), pays homage to the late Lebanese-American poet and artist Etel Adnan, whose anti-war work addressed the politics of exile and displacement. Using excerpts of Adnan’s poetry, along with those of late Jamaican-American poet, June Jordan and late Iranian poet, Nima Yushij, and paired with footage of Sausalito and other parts of California, Khoshgozaran’s work considers exile as a potential space for transnational solidarity. Rejecting nostalgia and assimilationist propaganda imposed on diasporic communities from the Middle East, they highlight the fortitude of human connection with land and nature and historic tales of collective resistance that challenge legacies of colonialism.
SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE is organized by Constanza Valenzuela, Assistant Curator of High Line Art.
Artist bio
Jibade-Khalil Huffman (b. 1981, Detroit, MI) is an artist and writer who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He has had recent solo institutional exhibitions include Brief Emotion, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, FR; You Are Here, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art Charleston, SC; and Now That I Can Dance, Tufts University Art Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA. Huffman’s work has also been exhibited at museums and institutions including Wexner Center for the Arts, Ballroom Marfa, The Kitchen, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, MoCA Tucson, Swiss Institute, New York, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, The Jewish Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Hammer Museum. Huffman was educated at Bard College (BA), Brown University (MFA, Literary Arts), and USC (MFA, Studio Art), his awards include the Grolier Poetry Prize, the Jerome Foundation Travel Grant and fellowships from Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Lighthouse Works, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Huffman was a 2015-16 Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. His work is in the permanent collections of Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Kadist, San Francisco, CA/Paris, FR; Pierce & Hill Harper Arts Foundation, Detroit, MI; Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY; and Tufts University Art Collection, Medford, MA. Huffman lives and works in Los Angeles, CA where he teaches video and collage at UC Irvine.Huffman is the author of Sleeper Hold (2015). James Brown Is Dead and Other Poems (2011). and 19 Names for Our Band (2008).
Gelare Khoshgozaran (b. 1986, Tehran, Iran) is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose work engages with the legacies of imperial violence manifested in war, militarization and borders. They use film and video to construct peripheral narratives that seek to redefine existing constructions of ‘home’ as a means of approaching new conceptualizations of belonging. Khoshgozaran has presented their work internationally, with recent and upcoming exhibitions at Delfina Foundation, Images Festival, EMPAC, MASS MoCA and the Hammer Museum. With a BFA in Photography from University of Arts in Tehran (2009), and an MFA from University of Southern California (2011), they are assistant professor of New Genres at the UCLA Department of Art, and an editor at MARCH: a journal of art and strategy.
Sofía Reyes Guevara (b. 1982, Bogotá, Colombia) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Bogotá, Colombia. Working across video, photography, installation, and books, she is interested in the subjective nature of images and explores the idea of appropriation and ownership of images in the digital age. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at institutions and galleries including SGR Galería, Bogotá, Colombia (2023); Lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia (2019); Espacio KB, Bogotá, Colombia (2019); Nuevo Miami, Bogotá, Colombia (2018); Sketch Galería, Bogotá, Colombia (2016); and Desborde Galería, Bogotá, Colombia (2014). She has participated in recent group exhibitions including DDMMAAA, ODEÓN, Bogotá, Colombia (2023); Ahogarse en un mar de datos/Drowning in a Sea of Data, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (2019); TELA DE JUICIO, Galeria SGR, Bogotá, Colombia (2018); Misión Posible, Galeria Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico (2016); lo mejor del mundo es poca cosa en Saturno ArteCamara, Bogotá, Colombia (2016).
Support
Lead support for High Line Art comes from Amanda and Don Mullen. Major support is provided by Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip E. Aarons, The Brown Foundation, Inc., and Charina Endowment Fund.
High Line Art is supported, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council, under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne Adams.
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