Now, 10 years later, Weems is the subject of a new retrospective, “The Evidence of Things Not Seen,” which recently opened at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Germany. The exhibition traveled to four other venues, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2014 she made history then as the first African American artist to have ever mounted a retrospective at the Guggenheim since its founding in 1939. Weems was last the subject of a career retrospective, “Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video,” when it opened at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville in 2012. More recently, Weems has also begun to organize what she calls “convenings,” multiday symposia that gather top intellectuals, writers, poets, and artists. Her genre-defying work moves between installation, performance, and film and video. In the years since, Weems has continued to ponder what it means to be a Black woman living in this world today, whether by standing in front of major museums, which have historically been repositories of colonial plunder, or by grieving the young Black men and women who have been murdered by the state. Carrie Mae Weems Among Artists Added to SFMOMA's Board of Trustees
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