From climate anxieties to the resurgence of religious icons
sector may have been more monumental than ever, but a monumental artwork does not a monument make. On the contrary, exhibitors’ attitudes towards monuments – as in, the kind that have become a centrepiece in anti-racist protests and broader culture wars in recent years – were largely critical, or at least ambivalent. Thomas J Price’s consisted of a classically-inspired bronze statue depicting a woman in tracksuit pants and a T-shirt, standing at more than three and a half metres tall.
At the other end of the exhibition hall, US artist Diedrick Brackens presented a more explicit take on this theme: his woven frieze depicted figures in the midst of dismantling a pedestal, or else raising it with ropes – it was left intentionally unclear; what mattered was the collectivised approach to rewriting colonial history.
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