"Images of Black men and Black women should speak on many levels, calling to mind in the viewer a range of issues and concerns.”
The artist used her body as a medium for her own art, an archive of her work. Seeing so much disinformation regarding Black people's culture and how they are perceived. Her work takes a deep look into the life of Black people and wants to create a space where Black women can look back at their own issues, moving on forward. Exploring and documenting her own life, in different series of work that surround her as the main focus.
“Everything Black people in America have seen or experienced has been filtered through that primal experience of exile, and that includes a longing to return to 'the promised land.'"
There are so many promised lands if you think about it, the epiphany of being exiled, pushed away from the parasocial narrative of society and living behind a wall of information. In this case, Carrie Mae Weems wanted people to see her documentation on Black women and issues that surrounded her culture.
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