Monae Jacobs | Black Galactica

Exhibition Dates: June 19th - July 19th

Gallery Hours: Work activated from sunset to sunrise each day, (6:30pm – 6:30am)

ICOSA Collective is proud to present Black Galactica, a collection sound works by Monae Jacobs.

COVID-19 global crisis serves as a star death leaving a black hole in its place. “Black Galactica,” is a sound and material simulation that demonstrates the quantum shift we are experiencing in real time. The undoing of life and time as we’ve known it. The human vessel would not survive the black hole’s corona, let alone the event horizon. But IF we could, time would bend around us as we were engulfed by the black hole. Time would slow down around us, but on the outside time would remain the same. This installation is an opportunity for viewers to assess how the pandemic has left a void, a black hole, that has altered the way we perceive and interact with reality, while also confronting the beauty in the unknown. “Black Galactica,” is a sound and material simulation that demonstrates the quantum shift we are experiencing in real time. The undoing of life and time as we’ve known it.

This sound piece is an opportunity for viewers to assess how the pandemic has left a void, a black hole, that has altered the way we perceive and interact with reality, while also confronting the beauty in the unknown.

Monae Jacobs is a genderqueer multidisciplinary creator of visual and auditory experiences focusing on Black dysfunction and healing. Shadowy Black figures make frequent appearances throughout their visual work, portraying a personal observation on the extraterrestrial kinship between Black people and the metaphysical world. Through depictions of Afro-centric entities and experimental dark noise, Monae depicts ominous dreamlike portrayals of the thin line between insanity and ascension. Monae uses cardboard and butcher paper for their visual work that marries their analysis of what is considered trash, what is considered art, and what is accessible to us. By repurposing cardboard as canvas, Monae intentionally practices resourcefulness both as a political statement and to pay respect to Earth during a time of extremely high plastic consumption/ pollution. (Instagram | @monaeism)