The exhibition Once Again... (Statues Never Die) at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
Experience an amazing and groundbreaking film installation by one of the greatest living artists and filmmakers, Sir Isacc Julien, at ARoS Art Museum in Aarhus.
A film installation out of the ordinary
Once Again … (Statues Never Die) (2022) is Julien’s latest work and an outstanding example of his unique approach to installation. The film work is a portrait of Alain Locke (1885–1954), the philosopher, educator, and cultural theorist who was a leading figure in the rise of African-American cultural and intellectual life in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s as the father of the Harlem Renaissance. The film explores the relationship between Locke and one of the most significant collectors of African material culture in the twentieth century, Alfred C. Barnes.
Julien’s film plays out across an installation of two back-projected screens which are reflected in the surrounding walls, on which panels of mylar mirror of the same dimensions are installed. They have the effect of doubling, sometime trebling the image, while troubling our gaze, reflecting it back on ourselves.
The exhibition runs from 6. September 2025 - 15 February 2026.