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Composed of found images and videos, Arthur Jafa's oeuvre revolves around Black American culture, the history of slavery, and ongoing structural and physical violence against Black Americans. As he put it in his 2003 text My Black Death: 'The central conundrum of black being (the double bind of our ontological existence) lies in the fact that common misery both defines and limits who we are. Such that our efforts to eliminate those forces which constrain also function to dissipate much which gives us our specificity, our uniqueness, our flavor by destroying the binds that define we will cease to be, but this is the good death (boa morte) to be embraced.'