Mitchell-Innes & Nash congratulates Jacolby Satterwhite on his collaboration with Solange on her new visual album. Satterwhite directed, animated and performed in the video for Sounds of Rain, which can be viewed on Apple Music.
Current and upcoming group exhibitions include Is This Tomorrow? at Whitechapel Gallery, London; Speculative Bodies at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis; About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and the New Queer at Wrightwood 659, Chicago; New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Open World: Video Games and Contemporary Art at the Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH. Upcoming solo exhibitions include the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia and Pioneer Works, New York in the fall of 2019.
The majority of the visual is centered around footage shot in Texas, but animation takes over the screen at the 28-minute mark, as album standout "Sound of Rain" plays in the background. Arriving at a pivotal moment near the end of the film, the surreal segment features flying horses, dancing figures, a cameo from Trina, and layers upon layers of symbolism. The scene is the work of New York City-based artist Jacolby Satterwhite, who animated, directed, and produced it under the guidance of Solange.
The dramatically shot piece opens and—spoiler alert—closes inside the Rothko Chapel in Houston, and, in between, includes majestic animated portraits by Robert Pruitt (who was born in Houston, like Solange) and delirious computer-generated dance scenes by Jacolby Satterwhite, who’s a contributing director on the project.
