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KARA WALKER:
MY COMPLEMENT, MY ENEMY,
MY OPPRESSOR, MY LOVE
July 5–October 19, 2008
The first full-scale American
museum survey of the work of Kara Walker opens at
the Modern on July 5. The exhibition is organized
by Philippe Vergne, Deputy Director and Chief Curator,
and Yasmil Raymond, Assistant Curator, at the Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis, in close collaboration with
the artist. My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor,
My Love features works ranging from Walker’s
signature black cut-paper silhouettes to film animations
to more than one hundred works on paper.
Walker is among the most complex
and prolific American artists of her generation.
Over the past decade, she has gained national and
international recognition for her room-size tableaux
depicting historical narratives haunted by sexuality,
violence, and subjugation through the genteel eighteenth-century
art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the American
South before the Civil War, Walker’s compositions
play off stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely,
life on the plantation, where masters, mistresses,
slaves, women, and children enact a subverted version
of the past.
NO ROOM TO ANSWER:
Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler
September 14, 2008–January
4, 2009
The Modern Art Museum of Fort
Worth and Curator Andrea Karnes present an exhibition
of photographs
and videos by the collaborative artistic team
of Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, their
first major survey in an American museum.
Hubbard
and Birchler’s signature works
from 1991 to the present are included in the
exhibition. The survey begins with the artists’ earliest
photographic series, which prefigured their videos,
and moves on to their works of the present day.
No Room to Answer examines Hubbard and Birchler’s
longtime interest in the early histories of photography
and cinema, which has provided them a unique
perspective on the medium of video. This exhibition
reveals how, by presenting picturesque, often
brilliantly saturated imagery in vaguely narrative
loops, Hubbard and Birchler create videos that
operate in an ethereal zone between realism and
reverie.
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