Detail of a Kara Walker installation from UCLA's Hammer Museum (source: catheadsix):
Not the same at all, I just remembered Walker's New Yorker profile and thought it was interesting. Maybe Gaffney saw the Walker exhibition at the MoMA (which I missed).
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I think you are right the the use of racialized silhouettes is not accidental given Walker's cultural moment.
I didn't much care for the Walker exhibit at the Whitney. It is an incredibly evocative style--juxtaposing storybook-style with racialized subject-matter, but it stops being evocative and starts to be repetitive when one confronts room after room of it.
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