My Body Is The Monument
2021
John Akomfrah
Artist, British, born Ghana, 1957
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Artwork overview
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Medium
inkjet print
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Credit Line
Heather and Jim Johnson Fund and Katherine and Peter Kend Fund
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 99.06 × 149.23 cm (39 × 58 3/4 in.)
framed: 102.87 × 152.72 × 5.08 cm (40 1/2 × 60 1/8 × 2 in.) -
Accession
2021.104.2
More About this Artwork
Article: The “Shirley Card” Legacy: Artists Correcting for Photography’s Racial Bias
Whiteness has been the default in color photographs, but artists like John Akomfrah work toward a “uniquely Black image.”
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
John Akomfrah, London; (Lisson Gallery, London); NGA purchase, 2021.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
lower center printed in image: My Body Is The Monument