Kara Walker
BIOGRAPHY — Kara Walker
karawalkerstudio.comNu te zien in De Pont museum Tilburg | Hedendaagse kunst
depont.nlhistorical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence, and subjugation but made using the genteel 18th-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the American South before the Civil War, Walker’s compositions play off stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely, life on the plantation, where masters and mistresses and slave men, women, and children... See more
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youtu.beKey reasons for using silhouettes Confronting racial and sexual stereotypes: Walker uses the simplistic form of silhouettes to depict caricatured figures that are based on harmful stereotypes, highlighting how racial stereotypes are "reductions of actual human beings".Creating ambiguity and audience complicity: By leaving out facial features, the... See more
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Getting To Know - Kara Walker
youtu.beKara Walker is vooral bekend om haar openhartige onderzoek naar ras, gender, seksualiteit en geweld, aan de hand van silhouetten van figuren die te zien zijn op talloze tentoonstellingen over de hele wereld.