Shelby Head
Providence, RI
My interdisciplinary practice investigates the social and linguistic constructs that shape identity, history, and collective memory in the United States.
MessageThis sculpture, a mound of discarded tires, embodies entrapment and environmental racism. The blacked-out title of the piece, a phrase defined as “something nearly impossible to escape” and historically used as a racial slur, draws on the 1991 EPA report exposing toxic waste sites disproportionately placed in African American communities. The work confronts systemic neglect, cycles of harm, and the persistence of racialized environmental injustice, turning industrial refuse into a stark monument of containment and exploitation.
- Collections: An Infrastructure Of Silence, Beyond the Whitewash
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