Zachary Fabri “Chanting Black Clouds”
RYAN LEE
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RYAN LEE presents Chanting Black Clouds (2010) by Brooklyn-based artist Zachary Fabri in RLWindow, a work that considers the correlation between physical and psychological weight. The 1:20 minute digital video shows Fabri with more than a dozen helium balloons tied to his hair as he runs back and forth through an otherwise empty room. The obvious physical weight of his dreadlocks is challenged by the balloons, which take on an illusive, cloudlike quality and allow the hair to float in space. The style, which Fabri wore for 15 years, is closely associated with his Caribbean heritage, which he acknowledges carries its own psychological burden surrounding social and political constructs. A meditative look at history, physicality, and nostalgia, Chanting Black Clouds precludes Forget me not, as my tether is clipped, a 15-minute video shot in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park that follows Fabri through a transformation incorporating the helium balloons, ending in the cutting of his dreadlocks. Chanting Black Clouds has been exhibited previously in Berlin and New York.
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from November 18, 2014 to December 08, 2014