Looking with Nona Faustine

Ariel Nereson

doi:10.1017/S1054204325100956

Looking with Nona Faustine

Ariel Nereson

Theatre and Dance

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Contemporary visual artist Nona Faustine’s White Shoes series stages and documents her reparative practice of taking self-portraits in sites around New York City where enslaved Africans lived, died, and are buried. Considering Faustine’s self-portrait series not only as photography but also as performance documentation invites theorizations of memorial practices (rather than monumental objects) and their affordances for liberatory aesthetic projects.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	98-115
Number of pages	18
Journal	TDR - The Drama Review - A Journal of Performance Studies
Volume	69
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204325100956
State	Published - Dec 1 2025

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