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American Monuments

Christopher DeAndre Mitchell Projection, Richmond, Virginia

2020
(American, b. 1982)
America
inkjet print
Image: 36.5 x 45.7 cm (14 3/8 x 18 in.); Paper: 40.7 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
The Julius L. Greenfield Photography Acquisition Fund 2021.106.2
Edition: edition 2/15
Location: not on view
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In 2020, artists projected the images of Black citizens killed by police on a monument to Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

Description

Kris Graves photographs landscapes and people to preserve memory, and in so doing raises the question of which memories should be preserved. National Geographic commissioned him to photograph the Confederate memorials on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, which were a focus of protests against White suprematism and police violence against Blacks.The face projected here belonged to 23-year-old Christopher DeAndre Mitchell, who was killed by police on December 9, 2018, in Torrance, California.
Christopher DeAndre Mitchell Projection, Richmond, Virginia

Christopher DeAndre Mitchell Projection, Richmond, Virginia

2020

Kris Graves

(American, b. 1982)
America

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