KARA WALKER

After the success of the recent touring exhibition My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, Kara Walker's silhouetted cut-out figures are a now-familiar but still pungent presence in contemporary art, reenacting uncomfortable, often violent episodes in Amer ican race relations and reprising, in their formal simplicity, the ways in which marginalized identities are reduced and distorted i nto readily legible, caricatured forms.