Kara Walker.

The article focuses on Kara Walker's 2025 exhibition "Dispatches from A- and the Museum of Half-remembered Histories" at Berlin's Sprüth Magers gallery, highlighting her shift from black-and-white silhouette works to large-scale collages enriched with deep colors. These works address historic racial, gendered, and colonial violence in America, using color primarily to enhance scenes rather than denote skin tone, thereby intensifying the portrayal of systemic violence and its legacies. Drawing inspiration from a 19th-century illustrated Popular History of the United States, Walker disrupts linear historical narratives by combining monumentality with unsettling details that reveal power hierarchies and obscured traumas. The exhibition also includes smaller pastel vanitas pieces that evoke the unnatural and often overlooked deaths caused by slavery and genocide, challenging sanitized colonial histories. [Extracted from the article]