Hand Study (Making in Whiteness) IIII
2021 - Photography (Photography)
154.94 x 78.74 cm
Carmen Winant
Hand Study (Making in Whiteness) IIII by Carmen Winant is part of a series of five collages. For this series, Winant hand cut approximately 3000 images from manuals of craft (mostly pottery) dating from the 1930s-1990s. The artist selected this period of time before the advent of digital photography, when many of the books were handset by artists and artisans, embedded with minor imprecisions and printed affordably. The resulting composition contains images from 15 to 40 different sources, set in uneven columns that appear to collide and jam together. There is a filmic quality to these sequences, showing how the shutter clicks with each movement the potter makes, recalling early stop-motion photography. The close-ups of the depicted hands are of mostly those of white males, who dominate the role of the pedagogue in these manuals. Through an arduous process of setting the images to large sheets of hot-press watercolor paper, Winant aims to “reperform the act of making,” unmaking and remaking. The imperfect grid suggests a human touch, and a tenderness in the process, which contrasts with the pre-digital objective quality of the found images. The vibrant color of the custom wood frame recalls the covers of the instructional manuals from which Winant harvests.
Carmen Winant is one of the leading artists who exclusively uses found images in a photographic practice that takes the form of collages, sculptures, artist books, billboards, and wall installations. Her work expands the public dialogue on the representation of women in Western society. She uses pre-digital sources; hand-cutting images in instructional manuals of craft, childbirth, and utopian pamphlets from lesbian separatists, feminist collectives, and women liberation movements of the 20th century. These images highlight individual and collective acts, and ask: what binds and unbinds one from society? Winant examines and exposes the entrenched ideologies that circulate via these printed images, operating in and shaping the socio-political space that produces them. Using her increasingly public platform to situate herself as an artist who is also a public intellectual, Winant’s work explores the story of women’s liberation, and archival photographs of radical feminist histories that imagine other possible worlds. Winant’s work critically engages with normative depictions of heterosexuality, ‘natural’ births, and the domineering whiteness in the documentation of such imagery. Her practice reflects the racialized space of reproduction, both in birth and in images, addressing critical issues in society and the agency of image-sharing in contemporary life.
Colors:
Related works sharing similar palette
» see more
© » AFC
Explain Me with Jonathan Schwartz of Atelier4 and Magda Sawon of Postmasters About AFC Board AFC Editions Donate Art F City Explain Me with Jonathan Schwartz of Atelier4 and Magda Sawon of Postmasters by Paddy Johnson and William Powhida on March 29, 2020 Explain Me Tweet Serkan Özkaya’s Proletarier Aller Länder (Workers of the World) 1999, Image via Postmaster’s Gallery...
© » THEARTNEWSPER
Blockbuster Pop art show in Mumbai marks a new type of exhibition for India Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Mumbai blog Blockbuster Pop art show in Mumbai marks a new type of exhibition for India Pop: Fame, Love, Power at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre is an unprecedented but surface-level survey for a broad audience Kabir Jhala 9 February 2024 Share Installation view of Pop: Fame, Love, Power at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, Mumbai Courtesy of NMACC When Nita Ambani, India’s wealthiest woman, opened her eponymous cultural centre in Mumbai last March, many in the art world were intrigued...
© » ART & OBJECT
10 Highlights from Art Basel in Paris | Art & Object Skip to main content Subscribe to our free e-letter! Webform Your Email Address Role Art Collector/Enthusiast Artist Art World Professional Academic Country USA Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Ascension Island Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian Ocean Territory British Virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Canary Islands Cape Verde Caribbean Netherlands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Ceuta & Melilla Chad Chile China Christmas Island Clipperton Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia Comoros Congo - Brazzaville Congo - Kinshasa Cook Islands Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Curaçao Cyprus Czechia Côte d’Ivoire Denmark Diego Garcia Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Eswatini Ethiopia Falkland Islands Faroe Islands Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern Territories Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Heard & McDonald Islands Honduras Hong Kong SAR China Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macao SAR China Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Myanmar (Burma) Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands North Korea North Macedonia Norway Oman Outlying Oceania Pakistan Palau Palestinian Territories Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Pitcairn Islands Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Réunion Samoa San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Sint Maarten Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka St...
© » LONDONIST
The National Portrait Gallery's Pavilion Cafe | Londonist That Kiosk Outside The National Portrait Gallery Is About To Reopen As A Cafe By Will Noble Will Noble That Kiosk Outside The National Portrait Gallery Is About To Reopen As A Cafe The former ticket booth opens as a cafe on 1 November 2023...
Related works found in the same semantic group
» see more
© » KADIST
Joanna Piotrowska
2019This selection of photographs taken between 2014 and 2019 focus on Piotrowska’s long-term preoccupation with issues of domesticity and containment...
© » KADIST
Joanna Piotrowska
2015This selection of photographs taken between 2014 and 2019 focus on Piotrowska’s long-term preoccupation with issues of domesticity and containment...
© » THEARTNEWSPER
Space race fakery, a CIA manual and a 10ft man: group show in Florida reveals the art of deception Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 review Space race fakery, a CIA manual and a 10ft man: group show in Florida reveals the art of deception Boca Raton Museum of Art exhibition explores the evolution of illusion through a contemporary lens Torey Akers 8 December 2023 Share A fibreglass Merma (2022), incorporating a video projection performance by Dominique Bousquet, is part of Tony Oursler’s Creature Features installation Tony Oursler As Miami Art Week winds down, the Boca Raton Museum of Art is keeping the magic going with an enchanted offering: Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art , a thematic exhibition that seeks truth through the lens of deception...
© » KADIST
Joanna Piotrowska
2015This selection of photographs taken between 2014 and 2019 focus on Piotrowska’s long-term preoccupation with issues of domesticity and containment...