Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Eccles, Tom, 1964-
2. Oikonomopoulos, Vassilis
3. Obrist, Hans Ulrich
4. Luma Arles, host institution.

Description

1. 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm

Summary

1. 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

1. Works. Selections

Alternative title

1. Works.
2. Shape of things

Subject

1. Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- > Exhibitions
2. Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- > Interviews
3. Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953-
4. African American women photographers > Exhibitions
5. African American women artists > Exhibitions
6. African American women in art > Exhibitions
7. African Americans in art > Exhibitions
8. Video art > United States > Exhibitions
9. Women photographers > United States > Interviews
10. Video art > Exhibitions
11. Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
12. African American women
13. African Americans
14. Photography, Artistic
15. Women
16. African American women photographers
17. African American women artists
18. African American women in art
19. African Americans in art
20. Video art
21. Women photographers
22. United States

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.
2. Interviews.
3. Photobooks.
4. Video art.

Contents

1. 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

1. Sc E 23-1144

Note

1. 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)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Author

1. Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- photographer, interviewee.

Title

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

Publisher

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

Copyright date

1. ©2023

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Eccles, Tom, 1964- author of foreword, curator.
2. Oikonomopoulos, Vassilis, author of foreword, curator.
3. Obrist, Hans Ulrich, author of foreword, interviewer.
4. Luma Arles, host institution.

LCCN

1. 2023936107

ISBN

1. 9781735762999 hardcover
2. 1735762997 hardcover

Research call number

1. Sc E 23-1144