Jet Auto Archive – April 27, May 11, May 25, 1992 (Medicated L.A. Kente)

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Jamal Cyrus
Jet Auto Archive – April 27, May 11, May 25, 1992 (Medicated L.A. Kente)
2018

About the Item

Jamal Cyrus Jet Auto Archive – April 27, May 11, May 25, 1992 (Medicated L.A. Kente), 2018 paper and cardboard collage 40 x 88 in (101.6 x 223.5 cm) 49 x 95 in (124.5 x 241.3 cm) framed Jet Auto Archive – April 27, May 11, May 25, 1992 (Medicated L.A. Kente) continues Cyrus’ Jet series, in which he uses his personal collection of Jet Magazine issues from the 80s and 90s to make intricately woven collages. In some of these works, Cyrus traces a fall from the dream: begun as a progressive site for writing about Black culture, Jet Magazine eventually became an advertising-driven magazine, coopting the original politics of the publication to target Black consumer power instead. In Medicated L.A. Kente, Cyrus uses multiple issues of the magazine to create a commemorative collage for Los Angeles, inspired by Ghanian Kente cloth and quiltmaking in the Southern U.S. Here, the Jet issues he repurposes come from April and May of 1992, the month of the Rodney King beating by L.A. police and their subsequent acquittal, which led to city-wide unrest. The process of transforming used fabrics (or, in this case, images) into something new, made for comfort and healing, is a nod to Southern quilt-making traditions. Like BPPGG, this work has phylacteries sewn into it. These 13 amulet devices, often small bundles with a spiritual or protective text folded into them, are a kind of medication, serving as healing and protection for their wearer—in this case, the city of Los Angeles. In Cyrus’s amulets, he’s placed a chapter drawn from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, entitled “Saved,” in which Malcolm X outlines his transformational religious conversion and self-education in prison.

Creator:
Jamal Cyrus (1973, American)
Creation Year:
2018
Dimensions:
Height: 49 in (124.46 cm)Width: 95 in (241.3 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Medium:
Magazine Paper,Cardboard
Movement & Style:
Conceptual
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Houston, TX
Reference Number:
Seller: JCY 671stDibs: LU4323889612