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White Shoes - Nona Faustine

“Nona Faustine confronts ... New York’s past and blows it wide open, and in doing so also insists the viewer confront residual prejudices and effects of that history that still persist today.”  – Brooklyn Rail “Faustine injects new meanings into historic sites that are already laden with ideology ... It’s also a message of hope. Through her work, she’s reclaiming her body and her city.” – Dazed“[Faustine] recalls the stories of so many strangers that went untold, simultaneously raising questions about why bodies matter and, more specifically, which bodies matter.”  –  Huffington Post White Shoes is a collection of self-portraits taken in locations around New York that were central to the city’s once pivotal – and now largely obscured and unacknowledged – involvement in the slave trade. Nona Faustine depicts herself at the sites of slave auctions, burial grounds, slave-owning farms, and the coastal locations where slave ships docked, posing nude apart from a pair of white high-heeled

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Aggiornato il 10/06/2026