Research Catalog

Title

Carrie Mae Weems : the shape of things / [curated by Tom Eccles and Vassilis Oikonomopoulos].

Author

Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953-

Publication

• New York City, New York : MW Editions ; Arles, France : Luma Arles, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eccles, Tom, 1964-
• Oikonomopoulos, Vassilis
• Obrist, Hans Ulrich
• Luma Arles, host institution.

Description

223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

• Works.
• Shape of things

Subject

• Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- > Exhibitions
• Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- > Interviews
• Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953-
• African American women photographers > Exhibitions
• African American women artists > Exhibitions
• African American women in art > Exhibitions
• African Americans in art > Exhibitions
• Video art > United States > Exhibitions
• Women photographers > United States > Interviews
• Video art > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• African American women
• African Americans
• Photography, Artistic
• Women
• African American women photographers
• African American women artists
• African American women in art
• African Americans in art
• Video art
• Women photographers
• United States

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Interviews.
• Photobooks.
• Video art.

Note

• Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at the Meccanique du Park des Ateliers, Luma Arles, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, May 26-December 30, 2023.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword -- Conversation with Carrie Mae Weems / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Specters of history / Huey Copeland -- Cyclorama the shape of things : a video in seven parts -- Carrie Mae Weem's convenings / Thomas J. Lax -- List of illustrated works -- About the artist.

Call Number

Sc E 23-1144

ISBN

• 9781735762999
• 1735762997

LCCN

2023936107

OCLC

1367894337

Author

Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- photographer, interviewee.

Title

Carrie Mae Weems : the shape of things / [curated by Tom Eccles and Vassilis Oikonomopoulos].

Publisher

New York City, New York : MW Editions ; Arles, France : Luma Arles, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Eccles, Tom, 1964- author of foreword, curator.

Oikonomopoulos, Vassilis, author of foreword, curator.

Obrist, Hans Ulrich, author of foreword, interviewer.

Luma Arles, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-1144