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PHASES OF SUGAR
gammelt Holtengaard Denmark, museum Valkhof Nijmegen, Bonnefanten Maastricht
"Phases of Sugar," commissioned by Gammelt Holtegaard for the exhibition "Colonial Stories – Power and People," explores Denmark's sugar history. In 2017, Denmark marked the centenary of selling the Virgin Islands to the U.S. This work features a hundred plaster casts of black men, women, and children, covered in blood and caramelized sugar, placed on the museum floor to compel visitors to navigate around them. The piece highlights the connection between sugar and blood, reflecting the brutal reality of enslaved people's suffering, while also alluding to death masks and the anthropological studies conducted during slavery.
photography AatJan Renders
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