Artist: Kara Walker
Title: You Do
Year: 1993/1994
Media: Cut paper on wall
This art piece comes a across as silhouettes of two women with objects in each of there hands, although the over exaggeration of the silhouettes it also shows a message towards the audience. In my opinion I think the artist, Kara Walker who is South African, comes across as pissed off which is understandable as her message with this art piece in my opinion is her anger towards the treatment towards slavery in South Africa before the civil war.
In the art work she points out the stereotypes of the silhouettes, by showing women using Voodoo on the man, inflicting pain by using pins, as did her ancestors by Voodoo dolls which came from Haiti.
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