Photos by Juan Peiró, courtesy of MACA.
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante presents Kara Walker: Burning Village, the artist’s largest exhibition to date in Spain. Burning Village charts the trajectory of Walker’s career across the past four decades. The exhibition brings together numerous works by Walker from the Michael Jenkins and Javier Romero Collection of MACA, including drawings, engravings, sculptures, artist books, and the 2021 stop-motion animation, Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies.
Walker’s complex oeuvre analyzes how historical and present dynamics of race, identity, power, and desire function in systems of oppression and subjugation. The images in her work are drawn from both art historical lineages and the fantastical, at times grotesque, realm of the imagined. Wielding the language of satire and self-referentiality, Walker reveals the contradictions inherent to a nation’s self-conception and critically reframes the role of visual rhetoric in national and cultural mythmaking.
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