UNTIL SUNDAY 22/2
VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
The plantation mansion, confederate soldiers, slaves united by a yoke, a burning hut, a man with a whip, a woman fleeing in terror… They are the cut-out black figures with which Kara Walker welcomes us to this exhibition in which he denounces the stereotypes associated with black people, the sexualization of black women and the exploitation of black bodies by white slaveholders. It does so by subverting the original function of the shadow theater from which it is inspired.. All figures are black, but it is easy to distinguish who is the white master and who is the black slave in this “game” of cutouts that contains violence and oppression beneath the static elegance of the silhouettes., deliberately old-fashioned looking. They are part of a chaotic narrative that will not end well no matter how much we move the pieces around.. Es, in the end, the palpable proof that an artistic work can be beautiful and horrifying at the same time.
Not at all accommodating, awkward and brave, In this exhibition, the Californian artist presents works that denounce structural racism and the perpetuation of narratives of power. They say she is one of the most complex artists of her generation., and for sample, is 44 pieces that you can see at the IVAM representing forty years of career in which he has worked with all types of techniques. Always flying over topics like race, The identity, violence, The power, sex and the system of oppression on which their country was forged. A wound that has not yet healed and that pushes him to question the way we look at and understand history.. S.M.
