Not exact matches
Virtually all
of the major themes that have engaged Weems are represented, including
personal narrative, such as Family Pictures and Stories and the famous Kitchen Table Series; the legacy and locales
of slavery, including
Sea Islands Series, Jefferson Suite, Slave Coast, and Dreaming in Cuba; contemporary perceptions
of African Americans, as in Colored People and Afro - Chic; and the universal struggle for equality dealt with in works like Ritual and Reunion.
Expanding on the
narrative of his previous work, Machado offers a more
personal approach in this series, portraying life at
sea on a modern day international containership.
Expanding on the
narrative of his previous work, Machado offers a more
personal approach in this series, portraying life at
sea on...
And yet, they remain artifacts, too,
of the era on the other side
of that threshold, when the project to master the coded
narratives of consumer culture had not yet been made to seem, by a new flood
of media, impossibly quixotic; and when it still seemed possible, in a
sea of images, to make a
personal and idiosyncratic claim.
Unveiling through a
narrative of intimate stories, both
personal and collective, Missing emphasizes the analogy
of mother and
sea («mère» and «mer» in French), while proposing a reflection on the universal concepts
of disappearance, loss and absence, central in the artist's work and exploration.