Helter Skelter: Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince

The show ‘Helter Skelter’ brings together works by Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince at Ca’ Corner della Regina, Venice. It marks the first dialogue between the two artists. Spanning more than fifty works across photography, video, installation, sculpture, and painting, the exhibition also includes new pieces and a collaboratively produced zine developed through exchanges between the artists.

Installed across the palazzo’s ground and first floors, the presentation examines how both artists draw from and rework images circulating within American visual culture. Through juxtaposition and overlap, it traces shared strategies of appropriation and image-making while situating their practices within broader questions of identity, media, and cultural narrative, reflected in the layered references embedded in the exhibition’s title.