Monuments selection from "Empirical Data and other fabrications", 2018; "Between Monuments" - Triumphal Column Series, 2019 by Rose Desiano

Monuments selection from “Empirical Data and other fabrications”, 2018; “Between Monuments” – Triumphal Column Series, 2019

By Rose Desiano

Public monuments create a narrative, a nonlinear tale of our histories, that is often inaccurate and fabled. This work looks to address the responsibility of a city to create an informed dialogue with its markers and monuments, one that takes stock in who it is serving and what message it is spreading. Selected are two panels from a larger series that depict Frederick Douglas and a Native American. In both cases, the original statues are small in scale and installed in remote areas of NYC. This series allows me to bring grandeur to these statues by representing them on the same scale as other well-known and larger NYC monuments.

Time & Memory Project