# @sfmoma on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DCSQLFbB7tc
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/60452488-sfmoma-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/c9d20bba70.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-11-12T21:01:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** SFMOMA (@sfmoma) — https://gondola.cc/sfmoma

## Caption

Watch as Kara Walker (kara_walker_official) describes “Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)” (2024).

Inspired by a wide range of sources, from antique dolls to Octavia Butler’s novel “Parable of the Sower,” Walker’s new commission, the artwork considers the memorialization of trauma, the objectives of technology, and the possibilities of transforming the negative energies that plague contemporary society. “The viewer will encounter a series of three display areas that’s populated by robotic black figures that seem to have emerged from the past, or perhaps from the future,” said Walker. “Those two concepts collide in this work.”

Check out Walker’s full video interview at the link in bio.

#KaraWalker #Automatons #SanFrancisco #SF #BayArea #ContemporaryArt [Kara Walker, Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), 2024; commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; © Kara Walker, courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co. and Sprüth Magers]

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karawalker, sf, automatons, contemporaryart, sanfrancisco, bayarea

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