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Join Us Le’Andra LeSeur’s Monument Eternal , now at Pioneer Works, is many things at once. It is a confrontation, an unraveling, a kind of alchemy. Marking the artist’s debut institutional solo exhibition, the show draws on LeSeur’s childhood memories of visiting Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park, where innocent joys of family picnics and fireworks mingled with the mountain’s weightier, sinister history.
Stone Mountain is not just any mountain — it’s an embodiment of White supremacy and colonization, a bitter legacy of stolen and desecrated Indigenous land. The resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan can be marked to Thanksgiving night of 1915, when it assembled on the summit; the group would continue to use the site for rituals and celebration. Carved into the mountain’s north side is the largest bas-relief carving in the world, a tribute to a lost cause , depicting three Confederate leaders (Jefferson Davis, Robert E.
Lee, “Stonewall” .