Carrie Mae Weems

When and Where I Enter, The British Museum

Maker

Carrie Mae Weems (American, b. 1953)

Title

When and Where I Enter, The British Museum
from the portfolio Rivington Place

Year

2007

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 47.6 x 38.1 cm (18 3/4 x 15 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Stamped in ink on verso, LL: [image of a starburst]. Inscribed in graphite, verso LL: B.C.I. 9/20/ Brodsky Center 07-330. Inscribed in graphite, verso LC: Carrie M. Weems 2007

Identification

Edition

9/20

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Walter H. Kimball Fund

Object Number

2014.35.6

Type

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 14: Shadows

The RISD Museum’s fourteenth issue of Manual shines a light on the shadow, centering the black body as a site of possibility, liberatory self-awareness, radical non-conformity, and joyful defiance. This issue serves as a companion to the exhibition Defying the Shadow.

Manual 14: Shadows opens with an excerpt on the shadow from W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, followed by an introduction by Dr. Anita N. Bateman, who elucidates: “Operating in the shadow comes with a legacy of resistance, both in spiritual and ideological forms.”

Exhibition History

Defying the Shadow
Dec 01, 2020 – Dec 18, 2021

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Tombstone

Carrie Mae Weems (American, b. 1953)
When and Where I Enter, The British Museum; from the portfolio Rivington Place, 2007
Inkjet print
Image: 47.6 x 38.1 cm (18 3/4 x 15 inches)
Walter H. Kimball Fund 2014.35.6

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