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Contemporary Art & the Weight of Memory: Pascale Marthine Tayou’s “Remember Bimbia” September 11, 2018

In a curator talk, Leora Maltz Leca discussed the Tayou’s site-specific memorial for the Redwood, contextualizing his monument to global slavery in light of the larger memorial turn in contemporary art. What does this installation propose? How does it picture history? And what does it ask of us?

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