The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis announced the inclusion of Sanford Biggers’s sculpture BAM (for Michael), dedicated to Michael Brown, as part of the artist’s current exhibition, on view at the museum through December 30, 2018. CAM is presenting the first exhibition to focus on Biggers’s BAM series, which includes sculptures, video installation, and painted quilts. Biggers seeks to memorialize and honor black victims of police violence in America, pointing toward recent transgressions and elevating the stories of specific individuals in order to combat historical amnesia. BAM (for Michael) joins three other sculptures in the exhibition—BAM (for Sandra), BAM (for Terence), BAM (for Jordan)—dedicated to Sandra Bland, Terence Crutcher, and Jordan Edwards, respectively, whose tragic deaths are among the hundreds of instances
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