Kara Walker. Burning Village. Michael Jenkins and Javier Romero Collection MACA

The MACA presents, until September 7, 2025, the largest exhibition of Kara Walker (Stockton, California, 1969) to date in Spain and can be visited until September 7. Curated by Rosa Castells, the exhibition presents a journey through her career over the last four decades. Kara Walker is one of the most outstanding artists of her generation and one of the most interesting figures in the international art scene, with a complex work that analyzes sometimes chaotic scenes, often using issues of race, identity, power, and desire always used as systems of oppression and subjugation, across centuries and continents.

The exhibition brings together the numerous works by Kara Walker in the Michael Jenkins and Javier Romero collection at the MACA. It comprises 44 pieces that cover part of the artist's career and constitute one of the most comprehensive sets of works by the artist in European institutions. On display are drawings, prints, sculptures, artists' books, and one of her most recent videos, a total of 31 works donated to the MACA in 2021 and 13 pieces deposited in 2024 for this exhibition, which have traveled from New York.

Known for her work of silhouettes cut out of paper, inspired by the historical tradition of Victorian shadow portraits, shadow theater, or magic lanterns, Walker uses, in works of great formal beauty, the language of satire and archetypes to reveal the contradictions of a nation's concept of itself, while casting a very lucid subversive gaze on the art-historical allusions that influence her works.

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