Kara Walker, the artist and MacArthur genius, has created a new installation for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) / A Respite for the Weary Time-Traveler. / Featuring a Rite of Ancient Intelligence Carried out by The Gardeners / Toward the Continued Improvement of the Human Specious" consists of eight Black automatons that "invite us to reflect on the human and nonhuman histories of racialized labor, offering a cryptic message about our own liberation," writes The Nation's Rachel Hunter Himes. Here's her story on this new work and how it fits into Walker's oeuvre. "Walker’s figures in 'Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine),' like those in her cut-paper murals, embody histories that need to be contended with," Hunter Himes says. "Yet unlike her earlier work, this installation also grants us a glimpse of a possible future, a future of freedom. Here, Walker asks her Black automatons to give us an image of liberation, a request to which they graciously accede."
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