“Cenotaph,” 2018, Sewn red fabric, 30 x 30 x 10 feet.
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“Cenotaph” (2018) was an outdoor installation that was part of a group exhibition at the Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. Each artist was invited to create a site specific installation based on the history of the cemetery.
A cenotaph refers to a monument commemorating people buried elsewhere. This installation was a monument commemorating the 872 probable unmarked burials in the African-American section that were discovered in 2016 and are still being uncovered and identified. It was placed in a Magnolia Tree next to the "Lion of the Confederacy '', a preexisting sculpture already constructed to commemorate the unknown confederate dead. Each of the fabric pieces in the installation is an abstracted red obelisk. The obelisk is the main structure in the Confederate section. This installation was commissioned by Dashboard and curated by Oshun Layne.