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title: "Only what may speak makes it into the archive"
date: 2021-12-01
last_modified: 2024-11-16T14:49:29+01:00
generated_at: 2026-04-29T23:11:04Z
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/only-what-may-speak-makes-it-into-the-archive-kara-walker-2021-context-en/"
description: "What makes an archive? At the SCHIRN, Kara Walker shows her personal work in progress in the form of over 600 drawings from the past 30 years."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2header_Schirn_Presse_Kara_Walker_Untitled_Serie_Notebooks_2019_2019_klein.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Only what may speak makes it into the archive