The Fact of Fiction: Four Works by Kara Walker

September 25 - October 23,2020

A solo exhibition featuring work by Kara Walker. To register for the October 7 presentation, Viewpoint: A Conversation on Kara Walker, go here. From the VAC: "Kara Walker entered the annals of art history in the mid-1990s with works that turned the genteel eighteenth-century genre of the cut-paper silhouette on its head, shaping the forms into disquieting panoramic friezes. She creates intense, immersive environments in which starkly depicted figures—usually black forms against a white wall—engage in eroticized, racially charged violence. Her huge tableaus of perverse vignettes address the history of American slavery and the persistent, residual racism of today. Walker began producing films and videos in 2004, propelling her wall-based works into new dimensions of time and motion. In her videos, the narratives suggested by her stationary silhouettes play out to their full, unsettling potential, illustrating historical traumas not experienced, but transmitted to later generations through stories and images. In the four works presented in this exhibition, Walker takes advantage of our distance from the antebellum era, filling the screen with fantastical yet historically inspired re-imaginings of the past. The Fact of Fiction: Four Works by Kara Walker is organized by Kanitra Fletcher and Landmarks, the public art program of The University of Texas at Austin. Please note: Works in this exhibition contain strong imagery and content that may not be suitable for all viewers."

Conversation: October 07, 2020 | 4-5 pm
Online discussion. See event for registration.

UT Visual Arts Center (VAC) 23rd and Trinity Streets
Austin, TX 78712
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