ArtDaily August 9, 2020
NEW YORK, NY.- “Shadowboxing" at FreedmanArt in New York City joins the works of photographer Nona Faustine and painter Kit White in a tete-a-tete that grapples with history, national memory, landscape, racism, and violence. Faustine and White engage with American history in their respective practices, as well as their use of the photographic image to share distinct perspectives on a contested American landscape, both past and present.” -Excerpted from Bomb Magazine review, December 18, 2019 by Stephanie Goodalle
Kit White now comments: "Who would have known that under Faustine's images lay the powder keg that was about to blow, bringing with it a message that was right before everyone’s eyes, but unseen. One of Faustine's powerful photographs depicts the now doomed statue of Theodore Roosevelt that stands before the Museum of Natural History. Looking at that image now, the violation seems so obvious, but it took this moment to make us see. Faustine, however, saw it all along."
Faustine's words are as powerful, as are her images that speak to the moment where we have arrived: “America's skeletons tumbling out of her closet. Black dead bodies screaming for justice.” - Nona Faustine