William Pope.L : Child

17 Sep-5 Nov 2011

Overview

A new major three screen video commission and film-set installation in the main gallery at Eastside Projects by Chicago based Pope.L, the self-dubbed 'Friendliest Black Artist in America'. In Child Jebediah, a father, seeks out his child after a long absence. He has been living in the same town but absent from the child's life. Jebediah lives with a woman who is not the child’s mother. He finds the child, now a young adult, in a bar with large windows facing the street that let in the sunset. The child recognizes his father but acts like a stranger. Jebediah buys his child drinks. Child suddenly exits the bar. The father follows. They travel from bar to bar to bar. Their journey is a unique tour of ‘the city’ with an underlying surrealist cowboy western structure.