Lot De Bie

Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation

in deze tentoonstelling is girlhood geen thema, maar een manier van kijken - van herinneren en verbeelden.

historical 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

Key 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

Het herinnert ons eraan dat representatie en verhalen vertellen via kunst, mode en cultuur essentieel zijn om zichtbaarheid te creëren.