Crews set up a nine-foot bronze sculpture between the Ferry Building and Pier 1 earlier this week.
The San Francisco Arts Commission and the Port of San Francisco say the statue is called "As Sounds Turn to Noise."
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It shows a young Black woman in jogging clothes -- meant to challenge the thought of who gets to be memorialized in bronze.
The installation will be outside the Ferry Building through January.