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Image credit: Zaq Landsberg, Christopher Columbus, Cast mycelium, courtesy of artist

Various artists, Race and Revolution: Reimagining Monuments

March 14, 2019 to June 14, 2019
Washington Skate Park, Brooklyn

Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.

Description:

Race and Revolution: Reimagining Monuments aims to bring the conversation of systemic race and racism from the past into the present by displaying excerpts from historical documents alongside contemporary artworks.

Reimagining Monuments questions the relationship between historical memory and historical monuments and the implications of the histories that remain absent. Sixteen artists respond to existing New York monuments or to sites they feel should have a monument. Alongside the artists’ work, quotations from historical documents about the corresponding monuments or sites open up dialogue regarding a need to re-examine these physical, selective sound bites of memory. Three public artworks by Zaq Landsberg, Rose DeSiano and Chip Thomas are displayed on the grounds in Washington Park.

This exhibition is presented by the Old Stone House.