Leaving Eden is an immersive collaborative exhibition between Los Angeles-based artists Samuelle Richardson and Snezana Saraswati Petrovic. Curated by Genie Davis, the exhibition explores the idea that climate change has made the idea of leaving our Eden, the planet earth, all too real a prospect. What happens to the flora and fauna, the animal life – including the human animal – if we allow the continued environmental apocalypse to continue? The collaborative exhibition features Richardson’s expressive, stunningly alive textile animals and Petrovic’s immersive, delicate flowers, trees, and glistening waters. Gallery visitors will move – as the flourishing creatures and landscape in this art world do – from a lush, green, and blue Eden to a dry, desert world, where all life must struggle for food and water. Divided into two rooms: an Edenic garden and a desert filled with Joshua Trees and cacti, the two artists have combined their gifts to create a vision to cherish and consider, one that expresses the beauty of nature and our vital need to protect it.