Carrie Mae Weems

Since her first works Weems has explored issues related to gender identity, sometimes from an intimate and family point of view, as in the Family Pictures & Stories series, understanding the domestic space as the place to present related issues with tradition, family, monogamy or personal relationships. This type of work shows us an artist with a strong political commitment towards the uses and abuses of power in the private sphere. But Weems is not alone in the private space. In her series on Africa, she reflects how the Other has been seen throughout history, understood as someone who is not part of a dominant, white culture, which has created narratives in terms of race, gender and class that do not correspond with the reality of that Other and convey a story of oppression and racism. It is these historical narratives that Weems tries to rework with her work.