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White House, Black Hands is an interactive augmented-reality artwork honoring the enslaved Black men and women who built the White House, then known as the President’s House. Constructed between 1792 and 1800 through enslaved labor, this global symbol of freedom and democracy carries histories that were intentionally left unmarked and unnamed.

Using augmented reality, the work places digital monuments, text, and interpretive storytelling into physical space transforming the White House and its surrounding landscape into a site of remembrance and historical reckoning. Viewers can experience White House, Black Hands either on-site in Washington, D.C., where the work is anchored to the physical landscape of the White House, or anywhere in the world through a mobile device, where the experience unfolds within a virtual spatial rendering of the site.

White House, Black Hands is part of Slavery Trails, a decentralized national memorial that uses augmented reality to mark hidden sites of enslavement across the United States, reconnecting place, history, and memory where these stories were erased.