"Beauty is just kind of an accident. Beauty is just a happenstance. Beauty is the remainders of being a painter."
"Suspended Belief" (2008)
"Suspended Belief," 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
"One of the reasons the exhibition, Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment (2008), came about was in actually dealing with the issue of appropriation. I didn’t want to have to appropriate anybody’s material; I just wanted to revisit this history."
-Carrie Mae Weems



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