A Brand New End

Violence is one of the ways that men have learned to cope with stress by Carmen Winant
sun-bleached construction paper, painter’s tape, lab prints; 2022. Courtesy of the artist and The Print Center, commissioned by The Print Center.

COLLAGE ON VIEW

Carmen Winant: A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures

at the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
26 January-14 April 2024

Artist Carmen Winant’s large-scale collages and installations illuminate the often-invisible experiences of women, as well as feminist strategies for survival, revolt, and self-determination. She explores these themes through objects drawn from and inspired by the archives of Women in Transition (WIT) and the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV). This exhibition includes depictions and descriptions of domestic violence.

Women at Work (Job Cards) (detail) by Carmen Winant
sun-bleached construction paper, painter’s tape, lab prints; 2022. Courtesy of the artist and The Print Center, commissioned by The Print Center.

The artist wrote in December 2020: I am a photographer who no longer makes her own images. My work revisits and recontextualizes the feminist histories that preceded my own, reaching backward as an attempt to understand the space between our lived experiences, and the larger, if nuanced and sometimes contradictory, aims of women’s liberation. As such the found photographs that run throughout my work – integrated into books, installations, billboards, or discrete objects–are not evidence of a history, but in fact its very living residue. These projects, all of which work to unravel foreclosed histories, often take the form of ad hoc archives and pay particular interest to women’s power, pleasure, labor, and self-actualization. Lately, I’ve turned towards imagination, optimism, and joy as shared, necessary tools of the artist and the revolutionary.

This exhibition has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Organized by The Print Center, Philadelphia and curated by Ksenia Nouril.

(Text adapted from materials provided by the museum).

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