Jordan Strafer’s video work revolves around gender, sexuality, race, and class as seen through the complex prism of “Americanism.” LOOPHOLE (2023) is the first chapter of a trilogy set against the backdrop of a fictionalized, high-profile rape trial in 1990s-era Florida. Pulling from the genre of erotic thrillers and televised court cases from the period, the work dramatizes a speculative love affair between the lead defense attorney and the jury foreman responsible for the acquittal of an unnamed rapist.

DECADENCE (2024), co-commissioned by The Vega Foundation, is the second chapter in this trilogy.