Kara Walker (b. 1969)

'I knew that if I was going to make work that had to deal with race issues, they were going to be full of contradictions. Because I always felt that its really a love affair that weve got going in this country, a love affair with the idea of it [race issues], with the notion of major conflict that needs to be overcome and maybe a fear of what happens when that thing is overcome - And, of course, these issues also translate into [the] very personal: Who am I beyond this skin I'm in?' (K. Walker, quoted at https://learn.walkerart.org/karawalker/Main RepresentingRace).