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Kara Walker : Figa
- Title
- Kara Walker : Figa / [edited by Karen Marta ; photography, Ari Marcopoulos ; preface by Dakis Joannou ; introduction and text by Kara Walker].
- Publication
- Athens, Greece : DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- 86 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Kara Walker's 'Figa', a sculpture monumental in both size and symbol, was installed at the Deste Foundation's Hydra Slaughterhouse in 2017. Once a part of Walker's colossal 2014 installation A Subtlety at the Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, Figa is made up of the hand piece from the anamorphic Sphinx that gestures a "fig sign", at once both a symbol of fertility and a "fuck you". In making a return to the site of the Sugar Factory work and the work's progeny in Hydra, this book offers critical insight on A Subtlety and Figa. Through extensive photographic documentation of the installation of the hand sculpture in Hydra by Ari Marcopoulos and seven fables written by Walker illustrating the power of folklore, mythology and black identity across the history of the United States, 'Figa' in book form captures a blockbuster exhibition in two parts.
- Alternative Title
- Figa
- Subject
- Walker, Kara Elizabeth > Exhibitions
- Walker, Kara Elizabeth
- 2000-2099
- African American women artists > Exhibitions
- Installations (Art) > 21st century > Exhibitions
- Video art > 21st century > Exhibitions
- Black people in art > Exhibitions
- Women, Black, in art > Exhibitions
- Video art
- Installations (Art)
- Africa > In art > Exhibitions
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition Figa at the DESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra, Greece, June 20-September 30, 2017.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-778
- ISBN
- 9786185039325
- 618503932X
- OCLC
- 1080274192
- Title
- Kara Walker : Figa / [edited by Karen Marta ; photography, Ari Marcopoulos ; preface by Dakis Joannou ; introduction and text by Kara Walker].
- Publisher
- Athens, Greece : DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Added Author
- Walker, Kara Elizabeth, artist.Marta, Karen, editor.Marcopoulos, Ari, 1957- photographer.Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, issuing body, host institution.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-778