I was procrastinating at work and found this audio and transcript produced by MoMA of a conversation with the artist Kara Walker.
MoMA | online projects | Conversations | Kara Walker:
I knew that if I was going to make work that had to deal with race issues, they were going to be full of contradictions. Because I always felt that it’s really a love affair that we’ve got going in this country, a love affair with the idea of it [race issues], with the notion of major conflict that needs to be overcome and maybe a fear of what happens when that thing is overcome– And, of course, these issues also translate into [the] very personal: Who am I beyond this skin I’m in?