Yrneh Gabon Brown
Fallen, 2017
Mix media on paper
60 x 50 inches
Time and Space
Photography
18 x 18 inches each
Memba Mi Tell Yu (Listen Up, Take Note)
Installation and performance
Dimensions variable
Images courtesy of the artist
Memba Mi Tell Yu (listen up, take note) is an operetta/exhibition consisting of performances utilizing songs, poetry and dance.
The exhibition addresses climate change and its effect on the ecosystem in California. The libretto will be carried through voice, movement, video projections and objects. Audience members participated in the last supper installation through food served in handmade ceramic vessels.
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Yrneh Gabon Brown is a New Genre/interdisciplinary media artist. His work deals with sustainable environmental issues in a socio-political and historical context. Gabon Brown is an international artist, based in Los Angeles, who illuminates his subject matter through interdisciplinary visual art and activism (performance art). His extensive travels have helped him to frame his ideas. After his summer 2017 Residency at the Foundation Sebastian in Mexico City, Gabon traveled to West Africa, London and Western Europe to conduct further research and dialogue regarding climate change and other social issues for the next four months.
Currently in California, Gabon uses visual and performing arts to bring awareness to albinism and climate change/global warming, hoping to extend his research globally.