Video: Installation-story, or installation-story of Kara Walker
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The installation by American artist Kara Walker is more like a shadow theater show, which features about 100 silhouettes, visually telling about various historical events and important contemporary issues, including slavery, sexual abuse, the rights of children and women.
Kara Walker is among the most productive creative people in America. Over the past decade, she has received national and international acclaim for an extraordinary large-format installation titled "My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love". A huge canvas stretching from one end of the exhibition hall to the other, with many silhouettes cut from black paper that tell different stories, including from life in America before the Civil War. Kara Walker's composition plays with stereotypes to depict, sometimes grotesquely, life on a plantation, where masters, slaves, women and children try to show their position and assert their rights.
Born in 1969 in California, Kara Walker received her BA from the College of Art in Atlanta and her MA from the School of Design in Rhode Island. Since that time, she has created over 30 large-format installations, painted hundreds of paintings and held over 40 individual exhibitions.
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