R.I.P. Germain

Everything’s For Sale & Everyone’s Welcome To Buy
R.I.P. Germain
AFI Commission
13 June – Ongoing

Forma is proud to announce the premiere of its latest commission - a film by artist R.I.P. Germain, which launches at Whitechapel Gallery as part of the Artists’ Film International (AFI), before being presented worldwide. R.I.P. Germain’s new film, Everything’s For Sale & Everyone’s Welcome To Buy speaks to the complex layers that exist within contemporary Black culture.

Everything’s For Sale & Everyone’s Welcome To Buy samples from the deep research-‘berg that sits beneath Jesus Died For Us, We Will Die For Dudus! (ICA London, 21st February - 14th May 2023), slicing like a soil corer into the sedimentary layers that informed the show. R.I.P. Germain is a voracious collector of cultural material, archiving the iconic and the fringe of Black culture and most of what is between, allowing these ideas to co-mingle, and layering up exegetical resonances that inform his decision making without necessarily being immediately retrievable to the viewer. Here we get a little wedge of the cake – each clip is a false front, and the viewer can make multiple conjectures about how –therein lies the challenge.