GUCCI CONTROLUCE: BLKNWS di Kahlil Joseph
GUCCI, in collaboration with Lo schermo dell’arte, presents:
BLKNWS
by Kahlil Joseph
2020, 91′
part of the series CONTROLUCE: STORIES OF BEAUTY
curated by Michele Bertolino
Kahlil Joseph combines high and low culture, mainstream and experimental approaches, contemporary references, music, and politics, using a language that spans film, visual art, and mass media. His works explore Black American life, systemic violence, and spaces of resistance and collective imagination.
BLKNWS presents a television-style program where video fragments from social media, news broadcasts, and films, rhythmically edited, rethink the format of the news show. The artist challenges dominant representations of Black experience and investigates information as a tool for constructing reality, transforming it into a collective experience.
Gucci presents ‘CONTROLUCE: STORIES OF BEAUTY’, a series of artist films and videos exploring the concept of beauty in its most spontaneous and pure form. Like a movement through bodies, words, and images, the series traces an intergenerational journey in which video becomes a living, pulsating surface—an expanded medium reaching into other art forms such as poetry, dance, theater, and fashion. The works were selected by curator Michele Bertolino, in collaboration with major contemporary art institutions in Tuscany, including Centro Pecci, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Museo Novecento, and Lo schermo dell’arte.
Kahlil Joseph (United States, 1981; lives and works in Los Angeles) is an artist and filmmaker, best known for his innovative music videos created for artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus, FKA twigs, and Beyoncé. He won the Eye Art & Film Prize in 2020 and participated in the 58th Venice Biennale (2019) and the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement in Geneva (2018).
His solo exhibitions have been held at the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, the New Museum in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
He is currently the Artistic Director of the Underground Museum, an independent art museum, exhibition space, and cultural center in Los Angeles, founded by his late brother, the visionary artist and curator Noah Davis.
INFO
12 November 2025 – 11 January 2026
Palazzo Gucci, Cinema Hall
Piazza della Signoria 10, Florence
Every day 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Tickets: €8 / €5 reduced for students and over 65