After Mazatlan
16
11 September - 29 September 2000
The Victoria Miro Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of
photographs by Isaac Julien which were made in collaboration with Hare
and Hound Press during Julien’s recent residency at ArtPace in Texas.
His film installation, The Long Road to Mazatlan
- another collaboration with acclaimed dancer and choreographer Javier
de Frutos, was commissioned by ArtPace and Grand Arts Kansas City and
the photographs - After Mazatlan,
quote directly from the same visual sources. Both draw on the
mythologies of the frontier culture of the American West and in
particular, the loaded iconographies of the Cowboy, here imbued with a
homoerotic quality redolent of Andy Warhol’s Lonesome Cowboys, while
also referencing the work of Martin Scorcese and David Hockney and
continuing, as with Julien’s earlier film work, to subvert
preconceptions of race and sexuality.