Kara Walker: Brent Sikkema. (Reviews -- New York).(Brief Article)

"Dear Cruel and malevolent Master," read one of the index cards punctuating Kara Walker's recent installation. "What irks me, you know this, is that I am and forever shall be a slave to that which brought (said: 'brung') me here." In an apparent afterthought, the "brought" and the "said" had been hastily crossed out with a red pen, the logic of the phrase rerouted through an act of self-editing.

Both the note and its partial effacement are emblematic of Walker's ongoing project: She records, in her distinctly incendiary way, the trauma ...

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