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Presented by 56 HENRY, LaKela Brown’s solo exhibition A Harvest assembles recent works that examine the relationships between material culture, historical inheritance, and the lived realities in our (Black) communities. Brown approaches casting as a process of transformation, in which familiar objects become sculptural propositions that question how value, labor, and care are distributed across society. The works shift between symbolic and literal registers, insisting that materials themselves can carry the weight of history and reveal the tensions embedded in contemporary life. Through this methodology, Brown cultivates a visual language that addresses both the endurance of cultural knowledge and the fragility of the systems meant to sustain life.
This language becomes particularly charged when the stakes of Brown’s material language become fully apparent when she turns to objects entangled with systems of profit, regulation, and cu…
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Presented by 56 HENRY, LaKela Brown’s solo exhibition A Harvest assembles recent works that examine the relationships between material culture, historical inheritance, and the lived realities in our (Black) communities. Brown approaches casting as a process of transformation, in which familiar objects become sculptural propositions that question how value, labor, and care are distributed across society. The works shift between symbolic and literal registers, insisting that materials themselves can carry the weight of history and reveal the tensions embedded in contemporary life. Through this methodology, Brown cultivates a visual language that addresses both the endurance of cultural knowledge and the fragility of the systems meant to sustain life.
This language becomes particularly charged when the stakes of Brown’s material language become fully apparent when she turns to objects entangled with systems of profit, regulation, and cu…
