LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER

For this exhibition, Frazier has reimagined her diverse bodies of work as a sequence of original installations that she calls ‘monuments for workers’ thoughts,’ which address the harmful effects of industrialization and deindustrialization, the healthcare inequities facing Black working-class communities in the Rust Belt, the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and the impact of the closure of a General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio. Monuments of Solidarity celebrates the expressions of creativity, mutual support, and intergenerational collaboration that persist in light of these denials of fundamental labor, human, and civil rights. As a form of Black feminist world-building, these nontraditional ‘monuments’’ demand recognition of the crucial role that women and people of colour have played and continue to play in histories of labour and the working class.

Organized by Roxana Marcoci, The David Dechman Senior Curator and Acting Chief Curator, with Caitlin Ryan, Assistant Curator, and Antoinette D. Roberts, former Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography.