Soft Monuments

Kat Thompson’s latest body of work interrogates the presence of monuments in the Caribbean. Traditionally, the state-sanctioned structures are built to be permanent, spectacular commemorations of colonial power and conquest. Soft Monuments offers a counter-approach: intimate and delicate works built from the remnants of personal archives. Through photo, found image, video and sculptural works, Thompson invites viewers to question who gets to decide what histories are worth remembrance. How might markers of memory be subverted, obscured, and reimagined?

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Artist

Kat Thompson is a multidisciplinary Afro-Jamaican American artist based in Virginia. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from George Mason University and her Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. 

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