Jim Jarmusch / some more collages / James Fuentes in Los Angeles
- LA Art Documents
- Mar 31
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Jim Jarmusch
some more collages
James Fuentes, Los Angeles
March 29 - April 26, 2025
Jim Jarmusch’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, debuting a new series of his iconic hand-torn newsprint collages at James Fuentes on Melrose Ave in Los Angeles.
He likens their creation to the process of automatic writing—each action unfolding naturally, without overanalysis or predetermination. Through this mode, the collages reflect Jarmusch’s wider creative philosophy. As well, the temporal ambiguity of the collected images—their origins becoming unknown—adds a layer of timelessness to the resulting works.
“The interesting thing about them is they reveal to me that my process of creating things is very similar, whether I’m writing a script or shooting a film or making a piece of music or writing a poem or making a collage. I gather the elements from which I will make the thing first. The collages reduce it to the most minimal form of that procedure.”—Jim Jarmusch in an interview with The New York Times
For Jarmusch, the collages serve as a private, integral part of his creative process and were never initially intended for public display. Over decades, he quietly amassed more than 500 of the works, created spontaneously and without concern for an audience. The James Fuentes exhibitions—first in New York in 2021, and now in Los Angeles—mark the only occasions where he has publicly exhibited this deeply personal body of work. In parallel to the first exhibition, Anthology Editions published Jarmusch’s first monograph, Some Collages in 2021.
