Untitled (Antico [Pier Jacopo Alari-Bonacolsi], Bust of a Young Man and Francis Harwood, Bust of a Man, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles), in How Many Billboards, MAK Center for Art and Architecture.

Profiled considers the changing meaning of the human form and its representation. In this conceptually driven photographic project, Gonzales-Day looks to the depiction of race and the construction of whiteness as points of departure from which to consider the impact of Enlightenment ideas about freedom, class, gender, and even the location of the soul, in depictions of the human form, and the portrait bust in particular. As a project, Profiled asks what comes after ideologies and their aesthetic manifestations have run their course, but it is as much about the missing body as its inanamate double. Cast, carved, burned, and broken, these lingering shadows of people that once lived in this world, or in the imaginations of their makers, have been overlooked by many contemporary viewers. The project seeks to reconsider these motionless forms, which represent everything from memorials to emperors to orientalist follies, and suggest news ways of tracking ever-changing ideas about race.

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