Image: Imani Jacqueline Brown, The holes in the earth mirror the holes in our souls (and from them we can grow trees), 2023. Media installation with soundscape “Enbas” by Les Cenelles. Courtesy of the artist and Les Cenelles. Installation view at Institute of the Arts and Sciences in Seeing through Stone.
Join our friends at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz (IAS) for a special walk-through of Seeing through Stone with Imani Jacqueline Brown, highlighting Brown’s work in the exhibition, The holes in the earth mirror the holes in our souls (and from them we can grow trees) (2023). This walk-through will touch on themes such as the intersection of carceral institutions and climate change and the profound impact of oil and gas infrastructure on Louisiana’s wetlands.
Imani Jacqueline Brown is an artist, activist, and architectural researcher from New Orleans, based in London. Her work investigates the ‘continuum of extractivism,’ which spans from settler-colonial genocide and slavery to fossil fuel production, gentrification, and police and corporate impunity. In exposing the layers of violence and resistance that form the foundations of US society, she opens up space to imagine paths to ecological reparations.
Location
Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
100 Panetta Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95060