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Cheyenne Julien, 'a place to dream' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Smart Objects, Los Angeles.
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Cheyenne Julien, 'Back Ache' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Smart Objects, Los Angeles.
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Cheyenne Julien, 'Back Ache' + 'Glass Flowers' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Smart Objects, Los Angeles.
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Cheyenne Julien, Homegrown (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Smart Objects, Los Angeles.
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Cheyenne Julien, 'Bath Time' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Smart Objects, Los Angeles.
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Cheyenne Julien, 'Glass Flowers' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Smart Objects, Los Angeles.
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Cheyenne Julien, 'Monica' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Smart Objects, Los Angeles.
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Cheyenne Julien, 'Picking Flowers' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Smart Objects, Los Angeles.
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Cheyenne Julien, 'Summer Camp Afar' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Smart Objects, Los Angeles.
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Cheyenne Julien explores environmental racism + the landscape of the psyche for Homegrown in LA

, 1 November 2017
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Cheyenne Julien‘s solo exhibition Homegrown at Los Angeles’ Smart Objects ran September 15 to October 20.

Cheyenne Julien, ‘Monica’ (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Smart Objects, Los Angeles.

The press release is written in first person by the Bronx-based artist, recounting memories of her past as a child like realising the nicer parks were for white children, living in brutalist architecture that she recalls felt like a prison and finding beauty “in the flowers that sprouted through the cracks of the sidewalk.”

Exploring environmental racism and the ways it manifests through our landscape of language, psyche, and social structures, Julien cites Lauren Pulido’s essay Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California (2000) as being an important influence in the way she has been interrogating and understanding the concept of space in her work.**

Cheyenne Julien’s Homegrown at Los Angeles’ Smart Objects ran September 15 to October 20, 2017.

 

 

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