The Artwork
The Maroon Station
2026
42'(L)x31'(W)x19'(H)
Inflatable Installation
Leimert Park
May 16-17, 2026
The Maroon Station is a weekend-long performance anchored by an inflatable architectural environment consisting of a dome connected to a slide. Participants enter one at a time by climbing and sliding into the interior of the dome. Inside, they take part in a shared experience centered on reorientation and collective presence.
The project draws from the history and practice of marronage, the sustained acts of escape, refusal, and world-building carried out by enslaved people who formed autonomous communities beyond plantation systems. Wherever slavery existed, marronage also existed. The Maroon Station treats this practice as an ongoing infrastructure that continues to appear across time and place wherever fugitivity, care, and collective survival are required.
For most of its existence, this station has remained invisible and accessible only to those who needed it. For one weekend, it becomes visible in public space. Sliding functions as a threshold into the station and the dome operates as a site of shelter. Inside the dome, the environment supports rest and sensory grounding. Cushions are arranged for sitting and reclining. Eucalyptus fills the space with scent. A soundscape welcomes participants and offers guidance on how to maroon, including slowing the body, releasing prior realities, and attuning to shared time.
The performance builds across the weekend as each participant subtly alters the conditions of the station for those who follow. Marronage emerges as a collective and adaptive practice sustained through shared presence.
Autumn Breon is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work engages queer Black feminist praxis, historical memory, and speculative futures. Her practice spans performance, installation, and public art that centers liberation and care. Inspired by ancestral technologies and maroon ecologies, she creates portals to other realities through ritual, research, and play. Breon studied Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, and her work often explores spatial freedom beyond Earth. She’s exhibited at institutions including Hauser & Wirth, LACMA, and the Brooklyn Museum. Breon is a member of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture’s Public Artist in Development Artist Council and a recipient of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart Fellowship for Abolition & the Advancement of the Creative Economy and the Race Forward Fellowship for Housing, Land, and Justice.