This July, we’re examining how artists in the Brooklyn Museum collection have dissected liberty, as

This July, we’re examining how artists in the Brooklyn Museum collection have dissected liberty, as a monument and as a concept, in the context of the United States.The legacy of slavery continues to inform how we come to know space and place. Nona Faustine animates erased histories of slavery by using her own body as a medium to connect the present to the past. In this image from her White Shoes series, Faustine situates herself at The Lefferts House in Brooklyn, located in what is now Prospect Park, where stolen and enslaved Africans lived in bondage. The white shoes represent the sexual economy that marked enslaved Black women as commodified flesh—the simultaneous regulation and violation of their reproductive capacity under the system of slavery. Posted by Akane OkoshiNona Faustine (née Simmons) (American, born 1977). Isabelle, Lefferts House, Brooklyn, 2016. Chromogenic photograph. Brooklyn Museum, Emily Winthrop Miles Fund, 2017.411b. © artist or artist’s estate  -- source link

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