Atlanta-based artist and documentarian Artemus Jenkins has lived in the city for 15 years. In that time, he has become an unflinching observer of its many merits and, perhaps, missteps.
These and other reflections inform his new solo exhibition, “They Should Have Never Gave You Niggas Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice,” at Hidden Gallery on view through the end of the month.
“The title itself — I know it’s got some triggering elements to it. But even, you know, the word to me is not really all that serious at this point,” Jenkins said about the title of his exhibition. “It’s been traveling for so long, and it means a number of different things to a number of different people. But words, you know, do just kind of become words at some point. And what you do with them is a part of exercise and artistic license.”
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