Jessica Lynne

Jessica Lynne is a writer and art critic. She is founding co-editor of ARTS.BLACK.

The first work a viewer might be drawn to upon entering Medicine for a Nightmare, the small, two-artist exhibition featuring Nigerian-Norwegian artist Frida Orupabo and the critically acclaimed filmmaker Arthur Jafa, at the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, Norway, is an untitled video installation by Orupabo mounted on a wall in the center of the exhibition space.
Frida Orupabo, Untitled, 2018, Collage with paper pins mounted on aluminium. 139.7 x 116.8 cm. Photo: Carl Henrik Tillberg. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nordenhake.
Lovushke is a movement-based project that uses virtual reality to explore the vulnerability of memory, fate, and mortality.
Rehearsal for Lovushke. Credit: Kevan Loney and Almeda Breynon.
651 ARTS is an organization dedicated to contemporary performing arts of the African diaspora. When the organization celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2014, I was tasked with producing the anniversary video retrospective.
Donald Byrd. Photo by Gabriel Bienczycki.

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