Yale Review: Claude Monet, Ja'Tovia Gary and the Gardens at Giverny
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Essay on Ja'Tovia Gary and Claude Monet in the gardens at Giverny for The Yale Review.
This extended essay considers the ways artists fold experiences of time, industry, and violence into more tranquil landscapes and gardens from the time of Claude Monet standing in his gardens and hearing the shells of World War I falling, to our own time, when film and installation maker Ja'Tovia Gary stood in those same gardens listening to violent repercussions.
Gary's The Giverny Suite was up at the Museum of Modern Art for much of 2024, and will be mounted at the Block Museum in Chicago in Fall 2025.