Weems is represented in the permanent collections of three U.S. Weems’s vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse moves marginalized voices to the forefront of civic discourse. However, as a socially engaged artist, I continue to explore these subjects, while turning a poetic eye to the subtle and ephemeral qualities of love: its power to embrace and to destroy.” Eliciting epic contexts from individually framed moments, Carrie Mae Weems’s work leads you through a visual narrative on the African-American experience as it relates to equality, racial identity, gender, and class. “On the surface it may appear that I am moving away from question of race and gender.
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