Carrie Mae Weems and the Afterlives of Images: A Visual Correspondence
A June and Simon Li Foundation Special Lecture
This talk explores the unique forms of visual and sonic correspondence found in the work of one of the preeminent contemporary artists of her generation: Carrie Mae Weems. It explores her engagement with the Black body – both her own, as well as mundane and iconic media figurations of it – as a bridge of contact and commemoration between artist and audience, individual and collective, and the living and departed. Examining a selection of her most recent works, the talk asks us to consider how Black artists remake and resuscitate images as a conduit of connection that force us to grapple simultaneously with the converging temporalities of Black subjection and Black possibility.
