![]() ![]() She’s a guide into circumstances seldom seen.” I think it’s very important that as a Black woman she’s engaged with the world around her she’s engaged with history, she’s engaged with looking, with being. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Carrying a tremendous burden, she is a Black woman leading me through the trauma of history. She’s a witness and a guide,” Weems told fellow photographer Dawoud Bey in a discussion for Bomb magazine in 2009. “This woman can stand in for me and for you she can stand in for the audience, she leads you into history. Though her output is multifaceted, Weems has continued to return to the “muse” figure first introduced in the intimacy of the kitchen-a woman who stands in for all women, guiding viewers through antebellum Louisiana or the vast exteriors of famous museums. Since photographing “The Kitchen Table Series” (Weems’s breakthrough project, though not her earliest), the Syracuse, New York–based artist has produced prolific bodies of photography and video work, earned a MacArthur “Genius Grant” in 2013, and became the first Black woman to receive a retrospective at the Guggenheim the following year. ![]()
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