A white South African reflects on encountering Michael Armitage’s Necklacing (2016) at The Met, where apartheid-era violence resurfaces far from home. Seen from New York, the painting becomes an unsettling meditation on memory, distance, implication, and the ethics of how African histories are displayed in global museums.
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