Swinging Into Reality, 2025
Stephanie Brown
Engraved and hand painted swings
Swinging Into Reality, is an interactive installation that includes 5 swings engraved with one word on its base to collectively read 'All Men Are Created Equal'. This installation extends themes of justice and systematic inequality in America that began in Brown's artwork titled SEESAW.
Swinging Into Reality, is strategically installed at Gilly Brew Bar in Stone Mountain Village. This site is a 200 Year Old House built by slaves, and turned into a modern, Black-Owned Brew Bar. The location for this installation echoes and underscores the ideas behind Swinging Into Reality, serving as a reminder of our history and demonstrating examples of our progress despite the odds against marginalized groups in America.
All images are courtesy of the artist, Stephanie Brown
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About the Artist
Stephanie Brown is an Atlanta based photographer and interactive installation artist. As a conceptual artist, her artwork explores how people of African descent construct their identities through social, cultural, and systematic confines. A daughter of Jamaican immigrants, Stephanie Brown grew up in South Florida at the intersection of her own Jamaican and Black American identities, which is reflected in her work offering ancestral and global insights on identity construction. Stephanie identifies as an interdisciplinary artist interweaving mediums to narrate a greater contextual story rooted in historical research and contributes contemporary perspectives that empower people of African descent to discover themselves and take control of who they choose to be and become.
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