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Kara Walker by Robert F. Reid-Pharr7/7/2023 They seemingly prod their way into existence from a state of individual and collective slumber. Walker creates forms that maximize what the viewer brings to them. Controversy that, I contend, is only partly a response to her iconography and more to her medium of choice: life-size black cut-paper figures glued onto the gallery walls. They have been the target of considerable controversy for the perceived obscenity of her imagery and the alleged revival of deep-seated racial stereotypes. Kara Walker’s installations have garnered international attention since the early 1990s for deploying an archaic representational form of portraiture-the cutout silhouette.
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