Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste

December 14th 2024 - February 1st 2025

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This upcoming exhibition will consider black sigh/tes, simultaneously as a poetic and an imperative.

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste returns to his native Baton Rouge to offer a new multi-sited engagement working with ongoing themes central to his practice. At two locations — 1600 Government St and a second, decided-upon-but-not- yet-public site — the artist will present a series of sculptural configurations that continue his work with decommissioned police sound technologies.

These works will be presented alongside still-crated “minor” artworks by “major” artists. This collection was built by the artist over a 10-year period using eBay and prompts questions about the efficacy and limits of contemporary and historic systems of value and speculation as they relate to bodies, objects, and site.

The exhibition will coincide with the debut of a forthcoming new atlas of real and imagined black sigh/tes created by the artist for the event, including a new conversation between Toussaint-Baptiste and Andrea Andersson of Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought (New Orleans), as well as the artist’s tenure as the inaugural fellow for Triple Canopy (New York City.)

This is Yes We Cannibal’s final exhibit at 1600 Government St.

This atlas has been made possible with financial support from  Greater Baton Rouge Arts Council and The Louisiana Office of Cultural Development,