Jon Rafman (*1981) is acclaimed for a multifaceted oeuvre that encompasses video, animation, photography, sculpture and installation. His quasi-anthropological works—often incorporating internet-sourced images and narrative material—investigate digital technologies and the communities they create, focusing on the losses, longings and fantasies that shape our technology-infused lives today. The Montreal-based artist turns an empathic but critical eye on the internet age, investigating experiences of alienation, nostalgia, loneliness and grief.
Courtesy Julia Stoschek Foundation
What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem
Works from the Julia Stoschek Foundation
Variety Arts Theater, Los Angeles
February 6–March 20, 2026
Marking the first major presentation of works from the Julia Stoschek Foundation in the US, What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem, edited by Udo Kittelmann, experiments with time-based media by placing contemporary video works in dialogue with silent films and early cinema classics. For the first time, a large-scale exhibition bridges these two universes, creating an unprecedented encounter across more than a century of visual storytelling. Bringing one of the world’s leading collections of time-based art to a city defined by moving images sparks a rare conversation across disciplines, dissolving the boundaries between visual art and cinema, museum and theater, white cube and black box. In doing so, it traces the evolution of visual storytelling over the past century, highlighting both the universality of human concerns and the shifting perspectives that shape their representation.
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