The Artwork
The Maroon Station
2026
42 FT(L)x31 FT(W)x19 FT(H)
Inflatable Installation
TBD
May 16-17, 2026 | 10AM - 6PM
The Maroon Station is a public art installation anchored by an inflatable architectural environment consisting of a dome connected to a slide. Participants enter one at a time by climbing the structure and sliding into the dome’s interior, where they encounter a shared spatial experience centered on orientation 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. Just as marronage has existed wherever slavery has existed, fugitivity rooted in care has appeared wherever oppressive forces have attempted to constrain imagination and liberation. The Maroon Station approaches this history as an ongoing infrastructure that continues to appear across time and place wherever fugitivity, care, and collective survival are required. The slide functions as a threshold into the station. Sliding activates the body’s kinetic memory of slipping between conditions and realities. The motion invites participants to move deliberately from one world into another, echoing how maroon communities emerged through acts of disappearance and reappearance beyond the reach of dominant systems.
Inside the dome, the environment features soft forms that support sitting and gathering. The Maroon Station offers guidance on how to maroon, including shifting perception, releasing inherited constraints, and attuning to shared time. Marronage appears here as a collective and adaptive practice sustained through presence and the ongoing work of building alternative worlds together.
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.