Join us 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. 

Poetically traversing the extractive history of Louisiana—from settler colonialism to slavery to prisons, and the fossil fuel industry—The holes in the earth mirror the holes in our souls (and from them we can grow trees) creatively choreographs these intersecting histories and their ecological impacts. This immersive video installation consists of two video projections and an audio track. The artist merges satellite imagery of Louisiana wetlands’ carceral institutions and its oil and gas infrastructure with photographs and video recorded from vehicles traveling through the region.

Free and open to the public.

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.

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.