‘Kitchen Table Series’ is the first publication dedicated solely to this early and important body of work by the American artist Carrie Mae Weems. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up the artwork tell the story of one woman’s life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. 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. ‘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.”
Kitchen Table Series has been released also in a new Collector’s Edition that includes the book and one numbered and signed print: ‘Untitled (Man Reading Newspaper), 1990/1999, 9,9 x 9,9 inches. The photographs has been printed in 2015 in a limited edition of 25 copies plus 5 Artist Proofs.
BOOK
Kitchen Table Series
Carrie Mae Weems
Published by Damiani and Matsumoto Editions
Text by Sarah Lewis and Adrienne Edwards
Collector’s Edition of 25 copies plus 5 Artist Proofs
Trade edition
ISBN: 9788862084628
€ 45,00
Collector’s Edition of 25 copies plus 5 Artist Proofs
ISBN: 9788862084710
€ 2.800,00
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