Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus fountain, which opens to the public on Wednesday 2 October and is the latest Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern, was inspired by the Queen Victoria memorial outside Buckingham Palace. Kara Walker Turbine Hall review – a shark-infested monument to the victims of British slavery Read moreThe Tate Modern curator Clara Kim said the hope was the work would ignite fresh debate of public monuments in Britain. Described as a “sardonic counterprogram to the celebration of empire”, Walker was inspired by the Queen Victoria memorial after seeing it from her taxi window on the way to Heathrow, after accepting the Tate commission. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kara Walker’s Turbine Hall installation tells the ‘origin story of the Africa diaspora’. Photograph: Tate Modern/PAAt a press conference on Monday, Walker said when she first visited Europe she was shocked by the grand scale of colonial-era monuments.

Source: The Guardian September 30, 2019 16:56 UTC