👑#ArtIsAWeapon Grateful Humbled Enlightened Honored Inspired Thank you @carriemaeweems 💐 ************* Y'all, GO SEE her exhibition "The Shape of Things" at @parkavearmory through December 31st. www.armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/2021_the_shape_of_things "Carrie Mae Weems, an artist who has consistently and poignantly addressed the conditions of race in the United States, will create a multi-work installation and series of performances titled The Shape of Things. Weems’ unflinching gaze at what she describes as the 'pageantry' and 'circus-like' quality of contemporary American political life find form in a series of large-scale installations and a cyclorama (a panoramic image on the inside of a cylindrical platform) of six to eight projections of new and existing film footage where Weems addresses the turmoil of current events and the 'long march forward.' Suggestive of a 19th-century carnival with dioramas based on spontaneous street memorials, peep shows, and a Pepper’s Ghost, The Shape of Things is an incisive, powerfully emotional, and critical reflection on events both deeply embedded in American culture and history and the explosive events of the past year." #TheShapeofThings #CarrieMaeWeems #BlackCreativeGenius #BlackGirlArtGeeks #ThisIsAmerica (at Park Avenue Armory) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXX8o0VA6hT/?utm_medium=tumblr
