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This #MayDay, we’re taking a look at LaToya Ruby Frazier’s “monument to the working-class people in this country.”
In 2018, General Motors announced that they would lay off nearly fifteen thousand workers and cease North American production of the Chevrolet Cruze. One of the facilities slated for closure—or “unallocated” was the Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant.
In solidarity with the United Auto Workers Local 1112, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier traveled to Lordstown to document union-led efforts to keep the plant open.
Her installation “The Last Cruze” includes more than sixty portraits of white, Black, and Latino workers and images of factory labor paired with printed excerpts from interviews Frazier initiated — memorializing the legacies and social bonds of a community with a place in the history of American labor.
“Monuments of Solidarity,” an exhibition of the artist-activist’s work sharing overlooked stories of social and racial injustice, opens on May 12 at MoMA → mo.ma/Frazier
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All images by LaToya Ruby Frazier © 2023 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery
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