Carrie Mae Weems : The Shape of Things - Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems

The Shape of Things

By: Carrie Mae Weems (Photographer), Tom Eccles (Foreword by), Huey Copeland (Text by), Thomas Lax (Text by)

Hardcover | 21 January 2023

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A grand panorama of race and civil unrest in America's past and present

Carrie Mae Weems has often confronted the uncomfortable truths of racism and race relations over the course of her nearly 40-year career. In The Shape of Things she focuses her unflinching gaze at what she describes as the circuslike quality of contemporary American political life. For this new work, Weems created a seven-part film projected onto a Cyclorama--a panoramic-style cylindrical screen that dates to the 19th century--where she addresses the turmoil of current events in the United States and the "long march forward."
Drawing on news and TV footage from the civil rights era to today, elements of previous films such as The Madding Crowd (2017) and new film projects that bring us into our tumultuous present, the films in The Shape of Things combine documentary directness with poetic rhythm to create an enveloping experience. The films are narrated by Weems, and the layering of her resonant voice with these images articulates the dangerous mounting resistance to the "browning of America." As Weems shows in these powerful works, America is irreversibly changed and changing.
Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953) has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships, and is represented in public and private collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Weems lives in Brooklyn and Syracuse, New York.

Industry Reviews
The Shape of Things is many things- alluring, immersive, poignant, so quiet yet so loud. Her book reinforces the idea that as artists, we hold a unique position to say something to evoke conversation with a hopeful resolution for humane change. -- Alayna N. Pernell * Lenscratch *
Intrepid works tackling the long shadows of sexism, racism, and power wielded to pernicious ends - and the beauty and community blossoming amid them - unfold in this publication with new reflections from the artist. -- Amin Lakshmi * Hyperallergic *
Carrie Mae Weems deserves our fullest attention. -- Caroline Roux * Financial Times *

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