On the occasion of the 2023 LA Art Book Fair, Printed Matter is pleased to launch a new fundraising edition with Arthur Jafa. The artist offers a magnified portrait of a motif from a previous 2017 work titled LeRage. The original sculpture depicts a life size standing cutout image of a grayscale Hulk, evoking the artist’s childhood fascination with comics and print ephemera, while also playing with notions of power and scale. This new work revisits LeRage and juxtaposes the tightly cropped image of the figure’s face with emphatic surrounding negative space.

Arthur Jafa creates work that approximates the radical power, beauty, and alienation of Black life in the West, while seeking to make visible (or emancipate) the power embedded in modes of African expression.