It was an honour to produce the limited edition on the occasion of ‘emanjendat’ at Serpentine South, LA-based artist Lauren Halsey’s first UK exhibition.

Lauren Halsey’s solo exhibition, ‘emanjendat’ at Serpentine South has transformed the gallery into a Funk Garden that pays homage to her hometown of South Central Los Angeles. The exhibition responds to Serpentine’s location in Kensington Gardens by extending the park into the galleries, reflecting South Central’s lack of public green spaces and improvisational backyard culture.

“Her regular wanderings through her neighbourhood, in which she documents the changing streetscape, are accompanied by a gathering of objects, posters, flyers, commercial signs, slogans and tags that celebrate local businesses and the communities’ activism which she adds to her studio archive.”

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Images and motifs from the collaged walls of the exhibitions explode off the wall and into the limited edition we produced for the occasion, ‘Untitled’, 2024. Halsey first began creating digital collages while studying architecture and printmaking and has continued to develop this facet of her practice across two and three dimensions to create “blueprints for imagining new futures… citing the visual and sonic layering associated with Funk music as an ongoing source of inspiration.” (Serpentine, 2024). 

The edition was printed in our digital suite on a glossy Hahnemühle stock, which provided an inky depth to the dark tones of the artwork and plays with the prismatic and reflective materials used in ‘emajendat’. ‘Untitled’, 2024 is available to buy online and in-store at Serpentine South.

See ‘emajendat’ at Serpentine South from 11 October 2024 – 2 March 2025.

To purchase Lauren Halsey, ‘Untitled’, 2024, visit serpentinegalleries.org

Lauren Halsey, emajendat, 2024. Installation view, Serpentine South. © Lauren Halsey. Photo: © Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy Serpentine. || Lauren Halsey, ‘Untitled’, 2024 © Lauren Halsey. Courtesy Serpentine. © Photo: readsreads.info

Halsey, L. (2023) ‘Artist Interview—Lauren Halsey: The Roof Garden Commission’, Perspectives, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Quotations have been lightly edited for concision and readability.