Jacolby Satterwhite has spent the past decade making highly wrought digitally animated science-fiction worlds and irreverent modern dance pieces that draw on vogueing and martial arts. But he considers his two current shows, in New York and Philadelphia, to be “the final draft, conceptually, of what I was trying to say for years.” While Satterwhite has long been known as an art-world generalist, his fall exhibitions show him at his most direct. At Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, the exhibition “You’re at Home” brings together his digitally animated video series “Birds in Paradise” (2017-19), in which folkloric motifs and symbols of American consumerism tumble into a video-game world, and his 3D-printed objects, such as coin purses and jewelry boxes, based on drawings made by his mother, Patricia Satterwhite, before her death in 2016. Meanwhile, at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, the show “Room for Living” features a group of works Satterwhite developed during his recently completed two-year residency at the museum. They include figurative sculptures inspired by virtual objects from his video series “Reifying Desire” (2011-14), in which Satterwhite’s own digitally animated avatar navigates a world where his mother’s renderings of household items are realized. The residency has been a homecoming of sorts for the artist, who obtained his M.F.A. in the city in 2010 before moving to New York, where he broke through with his virtual and live-action performances at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

Home is a unifying theme of Satterwhite’s twin exhibitions, and his year overall: In both New York and Philadelphia, he has continued his practice of using the prolific artistic output of his mother, who lived with schizophrenia, as raw material. At Pioneer Works, the gallery’s sole white space, a small room set off from the vast ground-floor exhibition hall, is dedicated to an installation of Patricia’s works — many of them blueprints of inventions that she sent to home shopping networks and patent offices. The room serves as a kind of legend to the show, a stark shrine of filial devotion that is absorbed elsewhere more conceptually. Satterwhite, who was born and raised in South Carolina, was also called on this year to contemplate the idea of homecoming by the musician Solange: He created a video for her slow-burning track “Sound of Rain,” from her 2019 album “When I Get Home,” that features an animated architectural colosseum populated by dancers, their bodies slowly combusting. The project was an occasion for the two collaborators, both 33 and ambitious interdisciplinary artists, to explore the similar ways in which they have been revisiting their origins.

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