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Kara Walker is having a show at The Modern in Fort Worth
She uses overhead projectors to throw colored light onto the ceiling, walls, and floor of the exhibition space, mingling with her black cut-paper silhouettes. As people walk into the installation, their own bodies interact with the light from the projectors, creating their own silhouettes, adding to the installation.
“Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On)” : 2002
The artist is best known for exploring the raw intersection of race, gender, and sexuality through her iconic, silhouetted figures. Walker unleashes the traditionally proper Victorian medium of the silhouette directly onto the walls of the gallery, creating a theatrical space in which her unruly cut-paper characters fornicate and inflict violence on one another.
- Kara Walker on the Art21 blog
“Darkytown Rebellion” : 2001
