In a new film from our Extended Play series, Krzysztof Wodiczko describes his 2020 site-specific commission for Madison Square Park in New York City, Monument.
With Monument, Wodiczko projects video likenesses and spoken narratives of resettled refugees onto a prominent 1881 monument to Civil War admiral, David Glasgow Farragut. As Wodiczko explains, “There are more than 70 million refugees; people who are forced to leave their home countries because those countries are engaged in wars…to actually see a refugee speaking is a very rare opportunity for the public.”
