The work of DeShawn Dumas is occupied by Slavery’s unresolved unfolding. Inhabiting the terror of a past not yet past, his ballistic monochromes objectify socialized trauma and the repetition compulsion that attends it. Dumas uses chromaticism and “objecthood” to index U.S. racecraft — that magical way Black bodies weaponize sidewalks and magnetize bullets. In film, his work pairs the afterlives of industrialized chattel slavery with catastrophic climate disruption – long initiated by Western industrial capitalism.