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Carrie Mae Weems: Reflections for Now

Reflections for Now – the largest presentation of the artist’s multi-disciplinary work in the UK to date – captures the performative and cinematic nature of her practice. Weems is celebrated for her exploration of identity, power, desire and social justice. Often challenging representations of race, gender, and class.

Curators: Florenceostende and Raúl Muñoz de la Vega
Architecture: Architecture Doing Place

The design employs the use fabrics and drapery to bring together some of these complex themes. Touching on the theatricality of Weems’s staging but also highlighting the beauty and poetics of her delivery by creating a sense of warmth and space for thoughtful reflections.

Weems’s own words are used as large quotes to guide the viewer through the gallery. Her narrative style is echoed further in the setting of the captions and use of a classic serif, inspired by pages from the book The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God. Which also lends it’s illustrated endpapers to the piece from the show Looking High, and Low (1993).

Barbican
Carrie Mae Weems: Reflections for Now

Reflections for Now – the largest presentation of the artist’s multi-disciplinary work in the UK to date – captures the performative and cinematic nature of her practice. Weems is celebrated for her exploration of identity, power, desire and social justice. Often challenging representations of race, gender, and class.

The design employs the use fabrics and drapery to bring together some of these complex themes. Touching on the theatricality of Weems’s staging but also highlighting the beauty and poetics of her delivery by creating a sense of warmth and space for thoughtful reflections. Weems’s own words are used as large quotes to guide the viewer through the gallery. Her narrative style is echoed further in the setting of the captions and use of a classic serif, inspired by pages from the book The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God. Which also lends it’s illustrated endpapers to the piece from the show Looking High, and Low (1993).

Curators: Florenceostende and Raúl Muñoz de la Vega
Architecture: Architecture Doing Place