04. Robert Green

Hold Up the World at Rudo Studio

Description:

For Counterpublic 2023, Green’s St. Louis Place studio will be a site for studio tours and community conversations, as well as an exhibition and a permanent public artwork created from and installed within a building at 2205 St. Louis Avenue in North St. Louis that was rescued and renovated by Green over the past several years. Embedded in these works is the artist’s personal story of growing up in the legendary Pruitt-Igoe housing complex and the trauma he and his family suffered when the community was displaced due to its demolition. Together, Green’s contributions to Counterpublic 2023 root his practice in the long arc of lived history, active organizing, and spatial and social imaginaries for Black solidarity and self-determination in North St. Louis.