Domino Sugar Refinery Shell

The Primal Pleasure and Brutal History of Sugar | Eater

"A former sugar refinery that in 2014 housed Kara Walker’s monumental installation A Subtlety: a 35‑foot sphinx formed from roughly 40 tons of white sugar, posed as a crouching Black woman and surrounded by life‑size figurines of Black boys carrying bananas and baskets. Presented as an homage to the unpaid, overworked artisans who refined sugar, the work deliberately confronted the brutal history of slavery and exploitative labor behind the commodity, inverting the site’s whiteness by making Blackness central and precious while anchoring the piece in the factory’s visceral, molasses‑stinking legacy." - Ruby Tandoh