Artworks

Untitled (Black Love), 1999/2001

  • Artist

    Carrie Mae Weems

  • Title

    Untitled (Black Love)

  • Date

    1999/2001

  • Medium

    3 gelatin silver prints

  • Dimensions

    Each: 15 × 15 in. (38.1 × 38.1 cm) Frame: 16 × 46 1/2 in. (40.6 × 118.1 cm)

  • Edition

    Edition 1 of 5

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee

  • Object Number

    2002.20.1

Carrie Mae Weems’s work often positions viewers as onlookers bearing witness to intimate scenes of reverie and respite. Untitled (Black Love) evinces her interest in the personal as political, making the viewer privy to moments in life that are not often visible or acknowledged. The three-part work resembles a storyboard for a film, unfolding to reveal a nighttime encounter between two lovers. In a darkened interior, the figures embrace and become a single silhouette.


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Artworks

Untitled (Black Love), 1999/2001

  • Artist

    Carrie Mae Weems

  • Title

    Untitled (Black Love)

  • Date

    1999/2001

  • Medium

    3 gelatin silver prints

  • Dimensions

    Each: 15 × 15 in. (38.1 × 38.1 cm) Frame: 16 × 46 1/2 in. (40.6 × 118.1 cm)

  • Edition

    Edition 1 of 5

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee

  • Object Number

    2002.20.1

Carrie Mae Weems’s work often positions viewers as onlookers bearing witness to intimate scenes of reverie and respite. Untitled (Black Love) evinces her interest in the personal as political, making the viewer privy to moments in life that are not often visible or acknowledged. The three-part work resembles a storyboard for a film, unfolding to reveal a nighttime encounter between two lovers. In a darkened interior, the figures embrace and become a single silhouette.


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