Isaac Julien: After Mazatlan

Victoria Miro 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.