Monumental Interventions
A Living Presence + and the body, Felix, where is it?
Christian’s essay and machado’s poem produce a dialogue that—in content and form—responds to the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. These interwoven texts can be read separately or as one dialogue in two voices.
Monumental Futures
TK Smith maps a trajectory of interventions toward the articulation of a monument aesthetic for the African diaspora.
Beverly Buchanan
Beverly Buchanan’s practice referenced southern vernacular architecture to interrogate relationships between Black people, history, and the landscape.
Che Onejoon
Che’s project makes evident how monuments are political tools that can manipulate, erase, uncover, and idealize histories, not just in one’s own country but around the world.
Thomas J. Price
In an attempt to expand the perimeters of classical sculpture, Price creates figurative works of Black men—and in this single case, a Black woman—in bronze and aluminum at various scales.
Meteorite & Monument
Is this meteorite the only intergalactic rock to have struck a work of modern art?
Paul Ramírez Jonas
In a nation where symbols are often divisive, Paul Ramírez Jonas reveals the potential of appropriating monument aesthetics to bring people together.
Onyedika Chuke
For New York–based multimedia artist Onyedika Chuke, the monument is plastic in form and concept.
Kelly Kristin Jones
Using the camera as a demolition tool, Chicago-based artist Kelly Kristin Jones redacts existing monuments from her photographs, offering the potential for something new in a reclaimed landscape.
Doreen Garner
Garner’s practice represents the body as muscle, fat, sinew, and blood, which bespeak an extreme vulnerability and toe the line between beauty and vulgarity.