Carrie Mae Weems portrait

Carrie Mae Weems & Avant Arte

Kitchen Table triptych

For our debut print collaboration, Carrie hand-selects three defining photographs from her landmark series, each capturing the breadth of human experience.

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Photographed in 1990, the pioneering Kitchen Table Series captures the layered complexities of a woman's life – lover, mother, friend, and self – illuminated by a single overhead lamp.

There was something very important about using my own skin and body to work through these difficult issues around notions of family, monogamy, relationships, blackness, and how it could all be negotiated within a political and social context.

Carrie Mae Weems

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Explore the depth and impact of Carrie Mae Weems’s groundbreaking career through four powerful life lessons drawn from her art and legacy.
The personal is always political
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
A woman stands at a kitchen table looking directly into the camera

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