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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Kara Walker: Figa

Kara Walker: Figa

Walker, Kara
Joannou, Dakis
Marta, Karen

Hardcover

American Art - African American & BlackIndividual ArtistsSculpture & Installation

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 618503932X
ISBN13: 9786185039325
Publisher: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art
Published: May 21 2019
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.70
Language: English

Critical insight into the gesturing hand piece from Kara Walker's monumental sugar sphinx

Kara Walker's (born 1969) 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.

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