Turn off the Lights, Disco Ball #13: A Kind of Black
For his upcoming solo exhibition at Kunstinstituut Melly, Jabu will create a new installation entitled, Turn off the Lights, Disco Ball #13: A Kind of Black, 2024. This sculpture will grow from built, ready-made, and stumbled-upon materials during the exhibition period. With Disco Ball #13 the artist digs deeper into Disco as a cultural and historical pillar for queer communities and as a pillar in his own artistic practice. Furthermore, the work questions the intuitive and etymological definitions and implications of its related forms. For the exhibition opening, Arnell will also present the accompanying work, Portrait of [Disco] [Ball] #13 in which he experiments with assumptions and responses to the idea of disco, the form of a ball, and the conceptualization and physicality of the disco ball. More info