Jordan Strafer

Building on her film trilogy Loophole (since 2023), Strafer transforms Fluentum’s exhibition space into a surreal talk show studio.

This studio serves as the set for a new commissioned work by the artist, produced by Fluentum. The film will be shot live in front of an audience during the exhibition’s opening, starring New York-based actor Jim Fletcher.


At the narrative center of the Loophole trilogy is a fictionalized rape trial that garnered major media attention in 1990s Florida. Drawing on the aesthetics of erotic thrillers and the spectacle of televised court proceedings, Strafer develops a hybrid visual language combining screenplay fragments, local news, reality TV, and court records. By merging historical sources and pop-cultural references spanning from the postwar era to the turn of the millennium, Loophole becomes a transhistorical investigation into justice, media culture, and public perception.

In DISSONANCE, the first two parts of the trilogy—LOOPHOLE (2023) and DECADENCE (2024)—are presented together for the first time as a continuous film, expanded through sculptures and architectural interventions. A spatial installation reminiscent of a 1990s talk show set, along with an accompanying public program, draws connections between the films’ narrative and the postwar history of the exhibition venue—a military complex built by the Nazis and used from 1945 to 1994 as the headquarters of the U.S. Army in Central Europe. This layering of historical contexts subtly points toward the third, still-unrealized part of Loophole, which is also being produced by Fluentum and is currently in development.

About Jordan Strafer

Jordan Strafer (*1990, Miami, USA) lives and works in New York and Athens. Her work is based on fictional and personal narratives that she interweaves with nuanced observations of societal injustices and power dynamics. Strafer has had solo exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2024), The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2024), Index, Stockholm (2023), Secession, Vienna (2023), and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2023). She received her MFA from Bard College (2019) and her BFA from The New School (2016).

About Fluentum

Fluentum is a privately funded, non-profit art institution dedicated to the exhibition, production, and collection of contemporary art, with a special focus on time-based media such as film and video. Initiated by Berlin-based entrepreneur and collector Markus Hannebauer, Fluentum opened its exhibition space in 2019 in a former military complex in Berlin.

Fluentum’s activities aim to convey to the public the aesthetic, political, and historiographical potential of the moving image.

At the heart of the biannual solo and group exhibitions is the realization of new works or series, developed by invited artists and presented to the public for the first time at Fluentum.



Opening and Live Film Shoot: Wednesday, September 10, 6–10 PM