 Carrie mae weems |
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Renowned as a photographer, Carrie Mae Weems is in fact an artist who uses photography—that of other photographers in several instances. The graceful choreography of text, sound and magical swathes of printed muslin, and the implicit socio-political messages of her work, seem informed by her earlier study of folklore, modern dance and work as a union organizer. Weems is interested in opening windows on black and Native American history but equally in suggesting that the black experience might be a conduit. ‘A part of my project,’ she has said, ‘is absolutely inserting the black presence in the world, asserting it as the norm. Not as the abnormal. Not as simply racial politics, but rather, embracing the breadth of this humanity that comes through this brown skin.’ For her numerous serial works and installations, she frequently takes historical incident, circumstance and architecture as frame and reference, setting herself as actor in a narrative to create a vital link between past and present, art and reality. |
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