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American Monuments

Eric Garner 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 2021.106.7
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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New York City police suspected Eric Garner on July 17, 2014, of selling single cigarettes from packs without tax stamps. While arresting him, an officer put him in a prohibited chokehold and Garner died. Video of this incident sparked a national debate about police use of inappropriate force. Garner’s was one of a number of faces of Black victims of police violence that Richmond artists Dustin Klein and Alex Criqui projected onto a monument to General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate States Army.
Eric Garner Projection, Richmond, Virginia

Eric Garner Projection, Richmond, Virginia

2020

Kris Graves

(American, b. 1982)
America

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