An insistence on the replication of material and formal elements towards the uplifting of those individuals and thoughts that are our points of reference, that exist as visual push back to those monumental histories of violence, may not be the only response to what has been accepted as the preordained approach to public memory. Perhaps precisely because they exist as a responses, re-affirming the antagonisms, we need to consider other forms of legacy work that center the exchange between individuals capable of disseminating thought, care and memory in a way that is responsive to the daily, and perhaps hourly, shifts in atmospheric tension. Forms, templates, methodologies and practices need urgently to be sought out that reject the use of the masters tools, that seek a different relationship to the Earth itself, to each other, to memory.
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Minted in Enemy Bronze, 2023. Installation view at the British School at Rome
