Overview
- Opening Oct. 23–24 in Los Angeles, the exhibition spans MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary and The Brick and is scheduled to run through May 3, 2026.
- Monuments assembles 10 decommissioned Confederate monuments with newly commissioned and existing works by 19 artists to examine how such objects function today.
- Kara Walker’s centerpiece, Unmanned Drone, transforms the toppled 1921 Stonewall Jackson equestrian statue into a mangled, centaur-like effigy using 3-D imaging and foundry work.
- Walker has described the process as requiring “an act of butchery” and framed the project as a chance to reclaim and rethink the histories bound up in Confederate statuary.
- A Stonewall Jackson descendant, William Jackson Christian, praised Walker’s piece in an email and said he plans to visit, as the show arrives during renewed political pushes to reinstall some removed Confederate memorials.