Kara Walker’s characters are drawn from American popular literature, culture and
history, and she uses them to expose the myths that lie beneath cultural archetypes and
the darker aspects of human behaviour. Best known for her cut out installations, her drawings (pictured above) reminded me of drawings from the mid 1990's by artists such as Alice Maher, Nicola Tyson and Nicole Eisenman.
The video installation of her shadow puppet play 'Fall Frum Grace- Miss Pipi’s Blue Tale' combined the sentiment and mode of storytelling often associated in the West with childhood, and subverted this with a brutal narrative of discrimination and violence.
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