Kara Walker’s "historical" shadow dramas depict unseemly acts of sex, birth and play that remind us of the slippery separation between dominance and desire. The black paper cut outs for which she is perhaps best known reduce representation to its base -- the silhouette as stereotype -- rejecting our insatiable appetite for predigested meanings. For her exhibition at REDCAT, the New York-based artist will expand upon her recent experiments into projected light and shadow, performance and video.

This exhibition is made possible in part by the generous support of The Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

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