At least one work, Dawoud Bey's «Birmingham Project,» from 2013, is directly related to the city: It commemorates the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist
church by white supremacists, in which four young girls were killed.
In some instances, she blots out the Confederate sculpture, as if attempting to erase the history that underpins it; in others, she makes it a more explicit site for
white supremacist fantasies
by adding giant burning crosses, racist slogans and a memorial to Dylann Roof (the alleged murderer of nine African - Americans in a South Carolina
church in June).