MCA – Media: Prisoner of Love

Skip to content

Press release

Prisoner of Love Press Release

Press images

Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, anonymous gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Images courtesy Arthur Jafa and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome

Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, anonymous gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Images courtesy Arthur Jafa and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome

Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, anonymous gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Image courtesy of Arthur Jafa and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome

Deana Lawson, Sons of Cush, 2016. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, restricted gift of Emerge. Courtesy of the artist and Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Glenn Ligon, Untitled (Study #1 for Prisoner of Love), 1992. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Sandra P. and Jack Guthman. © 1992 Glenn Ligon Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Kerry James Marshall, Souvenir I, 1997. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Bernice and Kenneth Newberger Fund. © 1997 Kerry James Marshall Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Bruce Nauman, Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain, 1983. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gerald S. Elliott Collection. © 2018 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago. January 26 – October 27, 2019
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Work shown: Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, anonymous gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Work shown: Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, anonymous gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Work shown: Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, anonymous gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Work shown: Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, anonymous gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Work shown: Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, anonymous gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Work shown: Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, anonymous gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Work shown: Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, anonymous gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Work shown: Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, anonymous gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Work shown: Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, anonymous gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Work shown: Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, anonymous gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago. January 26 – October 27, 2019
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago January 26 – October 27, 2019 Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Installation view, Prisoner of Love, MCA Chicago. January 26 – October 27, 2019
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago