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KARA WALKER (1969 - ) Testimony (Portfolio).
Set of 5 photogravures on Hahnemühle copperplate paper, 2005. 165x222 mm; 6 1/2x8 3/4 inches and 406x546 mm; 16x21 1/2 inches, full margins. Each sheet signed, dated and numbered 39/40 in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Lower East Side Print Shop, New York, with their blindstamp lower left.
Testimony is a set of 5 photogravures of the artist's cut-out silhouettes and projections from Walker's 2004 video work Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Fortune. Testimony bears witness to the trauma of enslavement that persists in contemporary culture.
