"From early on, very early on, I understood that art is not about what you say. It’s about these other things that you don’t say."
"Mourning" (2008)
"Mourning," 2008
Archival pigment print, 61 x 51 inches
© Carrie Mae Weems
Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Archival pigment print, 61 x 51 inches
© Carrie Mae Weems
Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
"Recapping the last forty years of my own life—beginning with 1968 and ending with 2008, and all those amazing and horrific things, assassinations, brutal acts— has implications and great significance for all of us. Now, part of that can be closed for me."
-Carrie Mae Weems
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