Kara Walker - The Black Road

Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made of cut-paper silhouettes. She has an extremely realistic approach to society and the human race, and the core of her work are racism, apartheid, exploitation, gender issues, social injustice, slavery and the horrors that it created. Texts by Hilton Als and Francisco Calvo Serraller