Nona Faustine - Not Gone With The Wind, Lefferts House- Brooklyn, 2016. (nudity)

sheet: 27 15/16 × 42 in. (71 × 106.7 cm) image: 26 5/8 × 40 in. (67.6 × 101.6 cm)

In this series of self-portraits, Nona Faustine inserts her own body into the history and architecture of slavery in New York City. In two photographs, she poses defiantly outside the Lefferts House in nearby Prospect Park. The house was home to descendants of the prominent namesake Dutch landowners and more than a dozen enslaved people between the 1780s and 1827, when slavery was abolished in New York. The interlaced children’s shoes, cast-iron skillet, and smoking revolver add a narrative dimension to the photographs, alluding to the ways Black women experienced and resisted the horrors of enslavement and carry its legacies today. - BkM

Nona Faustine currently has an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. It is titled, Nona Faustine: White Shoes, on view until July 7, 2024.

Nona Faustine: White Shoes is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition and the first complete installation of this consequential series. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Faustine urges us to think critically about the hidden, often traumatic histories of the places we call home. As such topics are being erased from public school curricula nationwide, this display is a moment to consider the enduring impact that the past has on our present. - Nona Faustine: White Shoes

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