![]() ![]() I started working on it in like 1989 and I finished it in 1990, so it’s been around for a long time. How do you feel about this series now, over 30 years on? It’s interesting. Here, Weems reflects on why it’s as relevant as ever. It’s now finally getting a stand-alone copy, out at the end of April from Damiani. And her Kitchen Table Series has been equally enduring, making its way into plenty of books and museums over the years. ![]() Since then, Weems has landed a MacArthur “genius grant” and around 50 solo shows, including the Guggenheim’s first retrospective of an African-American woman. She didn’t realize, though, that it would take on historical significance, too, paving the way for a generation of women artists concerned with their own representation, as well as in conversations of race and relationships to boot. Obsessive in telling the story of the woman she was playing-whom we follow through the course of relationships with her lover, her friends, and her daughter-Weems knew the series would be important to her. Decades ago in Northampton, Massachusetts, Carrie Mae Weems began devoting a part of every single day to photographing herself at her kitchen table. ![]()
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