Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/01/2025 - 05/17/2025
12:00 am
Location
Wood Street Galleries
Categories
In this exhibition, multidisciplinary artist Le’Andra LeSeur dissects the ways that monuments erected to commemorate racist legacies have altered the mental psyche of Black communities.
“Monument Eternal” centers on a titular video inspired by Stone Mountain in Georgia — a public park distinguished by a three-acre-wide carving that depicts Confederate leaders on horseback, begun in 1923 and completed in 1972.
A poetic translation of the body in collapse, the video stitches together slow-motion captures of the artist falling, unabated and repeatedly, on the mountain’s peak. The work borrows its title from an abridged autobiography written by jazz musician and composer Alice Coltrane (1937-2007).
Accompanying this video are other works created through remembrance of LeSeur’s recent encounters with Stone Mountain, including a painting completed during her 2023 residency at the Brooklyn cultural center Pioneer Works.
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