The Spaces We Inherit explores the historical legacy and contemporary significance of lynchings and racial murder on the American people and the American landscape through photographs, interviews, sound, and a short film.
Based on over twelve months of research and documentation across eleven states, the photographs in Spaces show the exact or approximate location where individuals were lynched or murdered, reflecting not just the universality and mundanity of physical space but the simultaneous nature of presence and absence - what is both seen and not seen. This section also features portraits and stories with direct connections to the physical locations and historical events, while others explore race relations in a broader context. The photographs in Codes take a similar approach with regards to documenting spaces that are significant to the ongoing narrative of racial violence.
As it was before, so it is again. The specters of slavery, lynching, and segregation appear, on the surface, to be relics of a bygone era and a bloody past, the mistakes of previous generations and governments. But they endure: disguised in new uniforms, hidden under the chimera of modernity, reshaped and renamed for the contemporary age. And then there are the atrocities themselves, the physical spaces upon which they took place, and the psychological landscapes within which they still reside and still haunt.
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