LnS Gallery is proud to announce the inclusion of represented artist, T. Eliott Mansa into the permanent collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami. The impacting assemblage, Victory of John Henry, (2020), has been acquired by the PAMM through the generous donation of Max König.

Victory of John Henry, (2020) references the legendary race of the African American folk hero, tasked with hammering a steel drill into rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel, against a steam drill machine. This narrative connects the importance of the role of African American labor to Western expansion and the financing of the industrial revolution. Victory of John Henry, (2020), consists of materials associated with mourning in Black Atlantic culture, such as sea shells, teddy bears, dolls, plastic flowers and foliage. Through this material usage, Mansa acknowledges and centers the memory of the ancestors as well as those lost to state violence and social injustice.