“FOR THIS REASON, IT IS INCUMBENT UPON ME TO RESIST—
ONE PHOTOGRAPH AT A TIME, ONE PHOTO-ESSAY AT A
TIME, ONE BODY OF WORK AT A TIME, ONE BOOK AT A TIME,
ONE WORKERS’ MONUMENT AT A TIME—HISTORICAL
ERASURE AND HISTORICAL AMNESIA.”

~ LaToya Ruby Frazier

FROM MoMA

For her first museum survey, Frazier has reimagined preexisting bodies of work and created new ones in a sequence of multimedia installations she calls “monuments for workers’ thoughts.” Poetic and political, they confront issues related to industrialization and deindustrialization, the health-care inequities Black and Brown communities face, human-made ecological crises, environmental racism, and violations of workers’ rights. For Frazier, the term “monument” does not denote mere commemoration—a static remembrance of the past—but a vibrant expression
of collectivity. The core of her practice, she has said, is “about solidarity, unity, and selfless love.”