Carrie Mae Weems Instagram – 🫧 Included in our Oh La La! presentation for @artbasel Paris is @carriemaeweems ‘Blues and Pinks 4’
The artist’s ‘Blues and Pinks’ works were created in response to the death of civil rights leader and the United States Representative John Lewis. A master of recontextualization and appropriation, Weems references her own earlier works and uses archival images including Charles Moore’s historic photographs of violent anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 and iconic photographs from the funerals of Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr. – both events of mass outrage and deep mourning. The works, some tinted in pink and blue, evoke a sense of tenderness and care and draw a throughline from the past to our present moment.
This series speaks to the artist’s decades-long engagement with injustice, identity, and cultural memory
On view from 18 – 19 October at Stand A19
#GoodmanGallery #ArtBaselParis #carriemaeweems #ArtinParis | Posted on 18/Oct/2024 17:04:58
