TK Smith
ECHOES Episode 6
What Cannot Be Held—Malcolm Peacock’s We Served … and they felt tiny bursts along the horizon
Duane Linklater: mymothersside
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.
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.