Kara walker

Walker’s latest work is disturbing, but the horror it portrays belongs to the American subconscious.

Kara Walker operates on the premise that when you make history truly visible, both your own and that of your people or nation, there exists a challenge to show all of it, the unholy mix, the conscious knowledge and the subconscious reaction, the traumatic history and the trauma it has created, the unprocessed and the unprocessable.

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Every day in ‘lockdown’, we are asked to consider the effects of social distancing – as if segregation weren’t already a reality

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Andrea K. Scott writes about the artist Kara Walker’s new show, at the Sikkema Jenkins & Co. gallery in New York.

Kara Walker, Roots and Links, Inc., 1997, black paper collage on prepared wove paper - National Gallery of Art - USA - African American Artists: Collection Highlights

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The oldest object on view documents an ugly reality, showing on brown paperboard one of the earliest known images of a slave in the US, accompanied by a bill of sale.