The three central figures – one female and two seemingly male – are engaged in what looks like a violent and ecstatic ménage à trois. They are framed by sinuous trees, the blue sky reflecting in three equidistant puddles before them. Against a nocturnal background washed in cobalt blue, four black figures are silhouetted. In the present work, Walker adds electrifying colour to the mix, using flashe, tempera and watercolour to create a striking fresco-like composition. Walker, whose new site-specific work for Tate’s Turbine Hall will be unveiled in October 2019, is best known for her mural-sized installations of black paper cut-outs which viscerally dramatize and deconstruct racial and sexual stereotypes the genteel ‘mock-antique’ appearance of these silhouettes is jarringly at odds with their incendiary content. Spanning over three metres in width, Four Idioms on Negro Art #4: Primitivism (2015) is a vivid and monumental work by Kara Walker.
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