![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 9, 2021, featuring pieces from as far back as the 90s. The Fraenkel Gallery is showing a collection of her work from Sept. Witness is an exploration of Weems’ works, focusing on history, identity and the structure of power. Art’s parallel to society is exactly what Weems is fighting against, by recreating art with a different focus and creating a more honest narrative. Weems repurposes that art, creates narratives, criticizes architecture and systems of power, and does this all with a purposeful lack of color. For much of time, Black people have been delegated to the background of the historical paintings and pictures that they exist in, and when they are shown, it isn’t to glorify or uplift them. Carrie Mae Weems brings light to the things we don’t see: the people in the background and the structures of power. ![]()
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