Kara Walker | Art21 | Preview from Season 2 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2003)

A lot of my work has been about the unexpected kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. And that kind of dilemma, that push and pull, is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make. The silhouette lends itself to, you know, a void inside the subject, you know, not being able to look at it indirectly.

Channel: Art21

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Keywords: contemporary, art, artist, art21, PBS, television, TV, series, documentary, stories, installations, shadows, silhouettes, history, narrative, race

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Length: 1min 16sec (76 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 07 2007