Contemporary American artist, Kara Walker’s mural ‘Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart’ is uncomfortably interesting, to say the least. The 1994 installation, which is now mounted in The MoMA in New York, confronts sexuality and violence while critiquing historical narratives of slavery. Walker, who cited her inspiration for the pieces from Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel ‘Gone with the Wind’ stated “The history of America is built on . . . inequality, this foundation of a racial inequality and a social inequality,”
