Kara Walker (b. 1969) is known for her meta-narrative work about African-American histories and expe

Kara Walker (b. 1969) is known for her meta-narrative work about African-American histories and experiences—in particular, racialized life in America in the 19th and early 20th century—using cut-out forms, drawings, silhouettes, shadows, sculptures, films, and installations. Walker’s work confronts viewers with stereotyped images of Black people, often in large-scale installations on a monumental scale, such as in her work entitled “A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby.”“Do you believe that art can still be a form of social struggle?” — This was a question raised by one of the students attending a two-day workshop on the exploration of human empathy in Turin, Italy in 2011, which Walker conducted along with  writer Rebecca Walker. Walker’s response was, as follows: “… [W]ith art or the arts, a certain amount of empathy is required. Any artist who is trying to understand, has already metabolized empathy, this sort of openness to “whatever it is-whatever it is” in front of you at the moment. And I think when you’re making art, there’s a kind of moment to moment awakening that then becomes material over a surface or through the pages of a book and to create a situation where there’s an audience, a viewer, who responds in kind. That’s the most amazing kind of openness and within that, there’s trust, and understanding awakens from trust …  activism and art do actually go hand in hand because you’re creating a situation where bodies ideas and minds are coming together.” (p.167-168)Kara Walker : a negress of noteworthy talenta cura di Olga Gambari ; [testi, Richard Flood … [et al.]].Walker, Kara Elizabeth  Torino : Fondazione Merz, c2011.207 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.Subject: “A Negress of Noteworthy Talent” documents a multimedia project developed by Kara Walker (born 1969) in Turin: her 2011 solo exhibition at the Fondazione Merz, a workshop for students from the Art Academy and University of Turin, an international conference on the politics and psychology of race stereotypes. The result is a defiantly unresolved exploration of the myth and memory of the African-American experience, an experience not fully collective or personal, but something uncomfortably in between, unfolding in a sinister and humorous shadowland of grotesque silhouettes and puppets. Walker’s Turin project further explores the drama of race that is as much a drama of the unconscious as it is about skin.Italian and EnglishCatalog of an exhibition held at the Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy, Mar. 25-July 3, 2011.ISBN : 9788877572516ISBN : 8877572515c2011HOLLIS number: 990130664810203941 -- source link

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