A Metta Prayer

Jacolby Satterwhite’s ambitious installation at The Met is the result of a highly technical creative practice involving a myriad of software platforms and emergent technologies. Projected onto the walls of the Great Hall, the six-channel video features more than 70 animated objects from The Met collection that populate an imagined digital architecture. Live action sequences captured in three dimensions feature collaborators—including Solange, Kelsey Lu, and Moses Sumney and drag performers like queer wrestling group Choke Hole—as characters within his narrative. Satterwhite animates these elements together with computer-generated imagery, applying the logic of video games to his unique virtual world.