Sonya Clark
Unraveling
2014
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Sonya Clark
Unraveling
2014
Physical Qualities
Cotton, painted wood, metal, Overall: 70 × 36 × 7 in. (177.8 × 91.4 × 17.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Pearlstone Family Fund and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.; and additional funds from John Meyerhoff and Lenel Srochi-Meyerhoff
Object Number
2019.106
Unraveling is a series in which the artist has fastidiously undone the fabric of a mass-produced Confederate battle flag several inches from the bottom edge. Flown during the American Civil War, the flag of the southern Confederate States conjures the brutal histories of racism, slavery, and segregation. For this series, Sonya Clark usually invites visitors to continue unraveling the flag with her, “not to destroy the flag but to investigate what it means to take it apart, a metaphor for the slow and deliberate work of unraveling racial dynamics in the United States.”While current COVID-19 restrictions do not allow for visitor participation, Clark created the Solidarity Book Project to foster solidarity with Black and Indigenous communities “so we can stand together even though we are being forced to stand apart.”
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2019; Goya Contemporary & Goya-Girl Press
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Black Flag
