Thirteen-year-old Maada looks up at the woman twice her size, in tracksuit bottoms and trainers, paused at the busy station forecourt of Rotterdam Centraal station.
Her art class is here to see this new statue by British artist Thomas J Price, Moments Contained – not a man who did something, a naked white sylph or someone’s colonial hero but an ordinary-looking black woman. Three weeks after being unveiled, the bronze artwork is part of the school’s curriculum on the Netherlands’ history of colonialism and slavery.
