“Monuments, the startling, chilling, thought provoking exhibition now at MOCA Geffen and The Brick is a must- see show. This exhibition is co-curated by Hamza Walker, Director of The Brick; Bennett Simpson, Senior Curator at MOCA; and artist Kara Walker (along with Hannah Burstein and Paula Kroll). It brings together 10 decommissioned monuments which honored the Confederacy alongside 19 contemporary artworks commissioned to be in conversation with the enormous debased statues. These works examine a particular and fraught time in our nation’s past while illuminating our present as well. We now live in a “post-truth” world that is populated by “alternative facts” and filled with competing views on our shared history. This timely exhibition requires the viewer to consider who writes history (traditionally the victor) and what, after all, is remembrance? What should or could be erased, debunked or forgotten and what are the consequences of these decisions and omissions?” 

-Nancy Kay Turner