![]() With additional support from Annual Exhibition Fund donors. Support for this exhibition is provided by The Winifred and Kevin P. Weems’ work commemorates fallen brothers and asks us to probe and seek understanding along with her. Weems draws inspiration from the ancient Greek tragedy Antigone, in which a woman defies prevailing powers to bury her fallen brother. Much of this work grew out of an exploration of the idea of grace in response to our contemporary moment. Images, color blocks, stated facts, and meditative narration, Weems directs our attention toward the repeated pattern of judicial inaction-the repeated denials and the repeated lack of acknowledgement. Blocks of color obscure faces just as our assumptions around race obscure individual humanity. Our imaginings have real-often deadly-outcomes. ![]() Representations that associate black bodies with criminality. She directs our attention to the constructed nature of racial identity-specifically, ![]() In Carrie Mae Weems: The Usual Suspects, Weems focuses on the humanity denied in recent killings of black men, women, and children by police. Carrie Mae Weems is asking probing questions about humanity, about representation, and about power with these photographic and video works. ![]()
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