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Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016, Video, Duration: 7 minutes, 25 seconds © Arthur Jafa. Courtesy of the artist, Gladstone, and Sprüth Magers.
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To mark the opening of Love / Hardcore at Conditions, Croydon, leading artists Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey come together for a special In the Studio conversation at the ICA. They will discuss their individual practices, their engagement with moving-image as a medium, and the significance of the works featured in the exhibition.
Love / Hardcore brings together two landmark video works: Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message, The Message is Death (2016) and Mark Leckey’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), widely regarded as two of the most influential moving-image artworks of the past three decades.
First shown at the ICA in 1999, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore has since achieved international acclaim and has been exhibited in major institutions around the world.
The exhibition opens at Conditions, Croydon on 28 June 2025.
Love / Hardcore brings together two landmark video works: Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message, The Message is Death (2016) and Mark Leckey’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), widely regarded as two of the most influential moving-image artworks of the past three decades.
First shown at the ICA in 1999, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore has since achieved international acclaim and has been exhibited in major institutions around the world.
The exhibition opens at Conditions, Croydon on 28 June 2025.
Bios
Arthur Jafa is an artist, filmmaker and cinematographer. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artifacts and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of black being. Jafa was awarded the Golden Lion at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019.
Mark Leckey is known for his innovative work at the intersection of video, sound and popular culture or even punk subculture. Winner of the prestigious Turner Prize in 2008, he explores themes linked to memory, technology and the impact of cultural objects on our identities.
Conditions is a low-cost studio programme for artists, founded in 2018 in Croydon by artists Matthew Noel-Tod and David Panos.
Collaborators
In collaboration with Conditions, Croydon.
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07:00 pm
Thu, 26 Jun 2025
Cinema 1
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Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016, Video, Duration: 7 minutes, 25 seconds © Arthur Jafa. Courtesy of the artist, Gladstone, and Sprüth Magers.
Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016, Video, Duration: 7 minutes, 25 seconds © Arthur Jafa. Courtesy of the artist, Gladstone, and Sprüth Magers.
Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016, Video, Duration: 7 minutes, 25 seconds © Arthur Jafa. Courtesy of the artist, Gladstone, and Sprüth Magers.
Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016, Video, Duration: 7 minutes, 25 seconds © Arthur Jafa. Courtesy of the artist, Gladstone, and Sprüth Magers.
Mark Leckey, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, 1999, Video, Duration: 15 minutes © Mark Leckey. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone.
Mark Leckey, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, 1999, Video, Duration: 15 minutes © Mark Leckey. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone.
no. 236848.