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silhouettes of people and animals on a white wall

Kara Walker operates on the premise that when you make history truly visible, both your own and that of your people or nation, there exists a challenge to show all of it, the unholy mix, the conscious knowledge and the subconscious reaction, the traumatic history and the trauma it has created, the unprocessed and the unprocessable.

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black and white photograph of people silhouetted against a wall

My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, the first full-scale American museum survey of the work of artist Kara Walker, features works ranging from her signature black cut-paper silhouettes to film animations to more than 100 works on paper.

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a black and white drawing of a woman holding an umbrella in front of a full moon

Kara Walker, Boo-Hoo, 2000. Linoleum cut, sheet: 39 3/4 × 20 5/8 in. (101 × 52.4 cm) Image (irregular): 36 11/16 × 18 1/2 in. (93.2 × 47 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Liz Fensterstock 2012.134. © Kara Walker

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