Lauren Halsey: Emajendat

The biggest visual layering I’ve ever seen.

Lauren Hasley is on show at the Serpentine with the funkiest garden and experience ever. It is a sort of extension of the Kesington Garden, where the royal gardens merge with a strong and funky topic of Black and Queer diaspora. A huge clap for that.

The exhibition, or even better an immersive experience, guides you through history, icons, symbols, part of the memories,l and history of the Black and Queer communities. I quite like the fact that it doesn’t look like a traditional exhibition. Everything is layered, mixed, it recreates moments, spaces, and that’s a fun way of learning -and exhibition making-.

Check out Hasley’s community centre project called Summaeverythang, dedicated to empowerment and transcendence of Black and Brown people socio-politically, economically, intellectually, and artistically.

Watch video here.