Iván Argote's Artwork Recontexualizes Historic Monuments

Black Lives Matter sparked an awakening which saw a great many colonial monuments toppled around the world. It is a subject matter that Columbia-born, Paris-based artist, Iván Argote has explored in his latest exhibition, "A Place For Us."Argote has spent the past 15 years carefully observing and discerning public monuments from his native Columbia, all the way to his new home in France. Instead of chaos and swatches, Argote's work is rather poetic in the way it showcases dismembered statues as...