SOUTHERN WHITE AMNESIA

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Artist: Zak Foster

Exhibition: SOUTHERN WHITE AMNESIA

Website: zakfoster.com/southern-white-amnesia

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FAMILY BED

Medium: Hand-sewn dolls, antique doll bed

Dimensions: 17"x10"x9"

Date: 2025

Description: Foster hand-sewed 36 dolls—one for each slave-owning ancestor and one for himself—and piled them awkwardly into this antique doll bed found at a local thrift shop. The cramped arrangement visualizes the uncomfortable reality of inherited connections to slavery that persist whether acknowledged or not.

Caption: Zak Foster, FAMILY BED, 2025. Hand-sewn dolls, antique doll bed. 17"x10"x9". Courtesy of the artist.

SNAKE HANDLER!

Medium: Embroidery on fabric, church banner format

Dimensions: 100"x50"