Kitchen Table Series seeks to reposition and reimagine the possibility of women and the possibility of people of color, and has to do with, in the artist's words, 'unrequited love. Weems herself is the protagonist of the series, though the woman she depicts is an archetype. The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story, revealing to us her relationships-with lovers, children, friends-and her own sense of self, in her varying projections of strength, vulnerability, aloofness, tenderness and solitude.As Weems describes it, this work of art depicts 'the battle around the family. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman's life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. First exhibited in 1990, the Kitchen Table Series set the stage for future contemporary artists to explore issues of identity. As I was scrolling through these beautiful black. The intimate and often political content of this narrative series finds common ground around the kitchen table, transcending the separation of domestic and civic space. Weems takes us on an exploration of the female experience seen through the domestic space, where women have belonged, ruled and suffered for thousands of years. photographs.1 Weems sets the stage at her own kitchen table, performing as. The Kitchen Table Series is a fundamentally universal body of work in that it tells the story of all women, not just black women.

Unlike the experience of meandering through a museum, stepping back to appreciate the images and nearing the text panels to skim them, the pace of exploration is now in a person's hands.' -Hilary Moss, New York TimesThis publication is dedicated solely to the early and canonical body of work by American artist Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953). In this essay I discuss Carrie Mae Weemss Kitchen Table Series (1990) as an. 'In book form, Kitchen Table is more intimate.

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