She also has work at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and on loan to the U.S. Embassies: the archival digital prints, African Girl, from the Gems and Jewels Series in Antananarivo, Madagascar an untitled photograph from the Eatonville Series in Monrovia, Liberia and two works from the Africa Series in Bamako, Mali. Weems is represented in the permanent collections of three U.S. Weems’s vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse moves marginalized voices to the forefront of civic discourse. However, as a socially engaged artist, I continue to explore these subjects, while turning a poetic eye to the subtle and ephemeral qualities of love: its power to embrace and to destroy.” Eliciting epic contexts from individually framed moments, Carrie Mae Weems’s work leads you through a visual narrative on the African-American experience as it relates to equality, racial identity, gender, and class. “On the surface it may appear that I am moving away from question of race and gender.
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