![]() ![]() Kitchen Table Series seeks to reposition and reimagine the possibility of women and the possibility of people of color, and has to do with, in the artist's words, "unrequited love. Weems herself is the protagonist of the series, though the woman she depicts is an archetype. The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story, revealing to us her relationships-with lovers, children, friends-and her own sense of self, in her varying projections of strength, vulnerability, aloofness, tenderness and solitude.Īs Weems describes it, this work of art depicts "the battle around the family. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman's life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. Senior Curator Andrea Karnes on the Work of Carrie Mae Weems Carrie Mae Weemss Untitled, 1990, from her kitchen table series is among the most powerful. This publication is dedicated solely to the early and canonical body of work by American artist Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953). It would be hard to overstate the impact of 'The Kitchen Table Series' (1989-90), which combines panels of text and image to tell the story of a self-possessed woman with a 'bodacious manner, varied talents, hard laughter, multiple opinions,' as it reads. ![]() Unlike the experience of meandering through a museum, stepping back to appreciate the images and nearing the text panels to skim them, the pace of exploration is now in a person's hands." -Hilary Moss, New York Times "In book form, Kitchen Table is more intimate. ![]()
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