Imani Jacqueline Brown
(United Kingdom)
Imani Jacqueline Brown is an artist, activist, and architectural researcher from New Orleans, based in London. Her work investigates the “continuum of extractivism,” which spans from settler-colonial genocide and slavery to fossil fuel production and climate change. In exposing the layers of violence and resistance that form the foundations of settler-colonial society, she opens space to imagine paths to ecological reparations.
Imani’s practice combines photography, videography, archival research, ecological philosophy, legal theory, people’s history, remote and local sensing, and counter-cartographic strategies to disentangle the spatial logics that make geographies, unmake communities, and break Earth’s geology. Her research is disseminated internationally through art installations, public actions, reports, and testimony delivered to courts and organs of the United Nations.
Among other things, Imani is a doctoral candidate in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of the Rise St. James Louisiana Historic Committee. She was an Advanced Researcher with Forensic Architecture from 2020-2025.
