Category: Stan Douglas

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Contemporary Artwork, Film, MOCA
Five channel video installation that is set in Reconstruction era South Carolina. Three channels show a white woman speaking with a Black man in an army uniform. The Black man is played by three different actors, one of whom is a white man in blackface. In one channel a white man is shown in profile walking through town. In the final channel, a man hunting in a field with bow and arrows is shown from behind.

Birth of a Nation

Stan Douglas

2025
Five-channel video installation (color; silent)
Commissioned by the Hartwig Art Foundation with The Brick
Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner

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