Matar’s photographs at sites of lethal police violence in the US and her fastidious research make for a quietly devastating critique. The formality of her images and the directness of her gaze sharpens the banality of a pavement, a parking lot, the back of a nondescript building, into a wordless exposition of absence.
My America
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