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A Daring Show Remixes the Monuments of the Confederacy

一场敢于挑战的表演重塑了南方邦联的纪念碑

A Daring Show Remixes the Monuments of the Confederacy
2025-10-24  1655  晦涩
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Alas, then, that the nine statues in “Monuments” have been abandoned, like Scarlett O’Hara’s Tara, to mortifying occupation. At MOCA, where all the works but Walker’s are exhibited, you’ll find Jefferson Davis lying on his back, still streaked with pink paint from protests, raising an arm—Will anyone help me?—toward a group of Klansmen photographed by Andres Serrano. In another room, an enormous statue of Lee and Jackson, with “BEWARE TRAITORS” scrawled in huge letters across its base, is paired with a replica of the car from “The Dukes of Hazzard,” by Hank Willis Thomas—a Dodge Charger, emblazoned with a Confederate battle flag, which here stands totalled on its head. Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee has undergone the most viscerally satisfying transformation, into neatly stacked piles of bronze ingots. (They will be recycled for a future work.)journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter

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