The first UK exhibition of the Los Angeles based artist will be on display from the 4th October until the 2nd March.
The Serpentine South galleries will host Lauren Halsey’s exhibition of funk inspired maximalism that is deeply rooted into he neighbourhood of South Central Los Angeles in which her family have lived for generations.
By using immersive installations, wall-based assemblages, miniature dioramas and stand-alone objects, Halsey archives and remixes the changing signs and symbols populating her environment, offering a celebration of the community’s vitality and a creative form of resistance to its growing gentrification.
This exhibition has been created in response to the gallery’s location in the landscape of Kensington Gardens and transform the galleries into an immersive ‘funk garden’ through sculptural components, plants, a live water feature, found objects and a specially created wallpaper. It builds upon her 2023 Roof Garden Commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, titled the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I) and keepers of the krown at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) – both projects that were created as testing grounds for Halsey’s ultimate ambition to create a public sculpture park sited in South Central Los Angeles.
To find out more visit: https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/