# @21chotels on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CaFQ1thO3u2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17440062-21chotels-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-02-17T14:45:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** 21c Museum Hotels (@21cHotels) — https://gondola.cc/21cHotels

## Caption

The budding spring landscape of a former Louisiana plantation is the subject of photographer Dawoud Bey’s latest historical investigation, In This Here Place, which the artist says is “inspired by a desire to examine aspects of African American history and to bring that history into a contemporary conversation; to provoke a reconsideration of that history through an act of radical Black imagination.” The past pulses into the present in Bey’s poetic compositions, propelling the viewer’s perspective backwards and forwards in time and place: the view offered by Branches, Leaves, and Cabins is dominated by the curving branch of a tree, on which new flora are growing, evidence that the roots of a more just future were planted here, alongside the cruelties of enslavement. Bey explains that “the other part of the plantation narrative is that in spite of the dehumanization, through their own will, through their own powerful spirit, through their own profound self-determination, Black folks have prevailed and excelled in ways that prove that the project of the plantation was not successful.” ⁠
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Dawoud Bey ⁠
Branches, Leaves, and Cabins, 2019 ⁠
Gelatin silver print

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21clouisville, 21cstilllife, 21cartist, 21cmuseum, blackhistorymonth

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