(POSTPOSTED TO 2022 DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC)

Every Monument is a Citizen presents the transnational collaboration of La Vaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers, I Am Queen Mary, in the context of the trajectory of their artistic practices. Pulling from Benedict Anderson’s concept of nations as "imagined" communities” this project situates Belle and Ehlers project as a construction that has come out of shared preoccupations with coloniality. A citizen inhabits this imagined community, and like monuments they also create ones. This exhibition will this respond to a questions around race, representation, power, hybridity and memory.