Fly Paper
Fly Paper is a moving-image work by Kahlil Joseph, conceived as a large-scale video installation. Running for twenty minutes, it plays on a continuous loop in darkened gallery spaces with immersive multichannel sound. Combining 35mm film, monochrome digital footage, and handheld video, it is projected at scale in a black-box environment. The piece omits conventional opening and closing credits, so visitors enter and exit midstream rather than at a beginning or end. Fly Paper premiered in the exhibition Kahlil Joseph: Shadow Play at the New Museum in New York, commissioned with The Vinyl Factory. It has since been shown in London and Berlin at The Store X / 180 The Strand, and in Los Angeles in One Day at a Time: Kahlil Joseph’s Fly Paper at MOCA’s Pacific Design Center.