American Monuments

Breonna Taylor Projection, Richmond, Virginia

2020
(American, b. 1982)
Image: 36.5 x 45.7 cm (14 3/8 x 18 in.); Paper: 40.7 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Edition: edition 2/15
Location: not on view
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For two months in 2020, the faces of Black citizens killed by police were projected on a monument to Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

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Twenty-six-year-old Breonna Taylor was one of the Black victims of police violence whose faces Richmond artists Dustin Klein and Alex Criqui projected onto a monument to General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate States Army. Taylor, a medical worker, was fatally shot by police during a botched raid on her Louisville apartment in March 2020.
Breonna Taylor Projection, Richmond, Virginia

Breonna Taylor Projection, Richmond, Virginia

2020

Kris Graves

(American, b. 1982)
America

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