"Building A Better Monument" is an exhibition curated by Seph Rodney on the website ArtAtTimeLikeThis, an online art institution focusing on arts and artists in the time of crisis such as 2020. As city governments react to protestors by removing the confederate statues during the past summer, one shall wonder what there will be to replace the colonialist icons. “Building A Better Monument” includes 9 artists dedicating their works to represent the marginalized demographics through monuments in the format of architecture, performance, painting, and sculpture. The exhibition utilizes the medium of videos and pictures to showcase the diverse range of works yet still manages to undermine their powerfulness by prioritizing the introduction writing through improvable website layouts. On Joiri Minaya’s page, her series “Containers”, in which she intervenes colonial statues by wrapping them with patterned fabrics, is simply stripped of the sheer impactful visuality due to the small-sized pictures comparing to the banners and texts. It is comforting to see that arts like these are able to engage with audiences in a time that is more relevant than ever, but the effort should not be spared perfecting the viewing experience for the webpage medium that is much more limited than its physical counterpart.
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