Bau Haus, in collaboration with Codify Art, is pleased to present THE RETROSPECTIVE, featuring work by Bau Haus founders and inhabitants Jarrett Key and Son Kit. This exhibition will be on view for one night only during the opening reception: Saturday, July 28, 7–10PM.

LOCATION:
516 Bainbridge St, Apt 1L
Brooklyn, NY 11233

Twice a year since February 2015, Bau Haus has gutted and reanimated itself for the Bau Haus Semi-Annual Show in the name of experimentation, self-exploration, and community-sharing. Amidst its myriad guiding structures, The Bau Haus Semi-Annual has maintained one cardinal rule: all featured work must have never been shown elsewhere.

For THE RETROSPECTIVE, we’re saying fuck it.

Please join us for the final(!) Bau Haus show in its Brooklyn iteration before we move to Providence, RI for grad school. Like our very first exhibition (YELLOW PERIL BLACK POWER), THE RETROSPECTIVE is a two-person show of Bau Haus founders Jarrett Key and Son Kit and features greatest hits from the past alongside pieces either brand new or never-been-shown-in-NYC.

Afterparty to follow in the same space. Some of the work will be cleared for safekeeping, so be sure to come early!

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Jarrett Key is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose work integrates movement, song, and painting. Their Hair Painting Series re-imagines the collective bodily memories and rituals of the Black community by engaging its narratives of strength, courage, and resilience in an examination of past, present, and future.

Jarrett grew up in rural Alabama and began their art practice in New York after graduating from Brown University in 2013.

Jarrett has been featured in exhibitions and residencies at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, La MaMa Galleria, The Columbus Museum, Gallery 67, Swiss House/MGLC, Galerija Kresija, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, Caelum Gallery, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Outlet Fine Art, Former Pfizer Pharmaceutical Factory, Secret Dungeon, La Maison D’Art, Shanghai Theater Academy, and East Meet West Gallery.
Jarrett’s work is in the collections of the Schomburg Center, the Museum of Modern Art Library, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, among other institutions. The Hair Painting Series series has been featured at the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the Harlem Arts Festival in Marcus Garvey Park.

Son Kit is a Brooklyn-based artist and curator originally spawned in Los Angeles, CA.

Kit utilizes video, illustration, installation, and text to explore non-binary second-gen yellow narratives in pursuit of a New Canon of Korean-American Science Fiction Authored Entirely by Them. Their current body of work leverages climate change fantasy as allegory for diaspora through world-building projects set in a future Earth covered entirely by water. Common themes include evolution, anthropomorphization, war/machines, mythology, and translation.

Recent exhibitions include Anthropiscine War Machine at SOHO20, OUR GREAT LEADER WILL NUKE YOU at SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2018, and Speculative Skins at the Naughton Gallery in Belfast. Kit has spoken at the Brooklyn Museum, RISD, and Brown University, and has been featured in Art in America and Artspace, amongst others. Kit is a co-founder of Codify Art, a multidisciplinary collective of, and platform for, QTPOC artists, and of EST, a research collective investigating the intersection of Asia, technology, and racialized futurisms.