Under Pressure

Kara Walker's 'Pressure' uses her signature black cut-paper silhouettes to restage scenes of antebellum American plantation life — race, gender, violence — within the 19th-century silhouette-portrait genre. Subverting the romanticised iconography of the 'Old South', the installation simultaneously exposes white fantasy and the brutalised Black body. It is one of the central works in The Broad's holdings of Walker in Los Angeles.

Exhibition Venue

The Broad

Los Angeles, United States