Bonart magazine is raffling off 12 double tickets to its subscribers to visit the Carrie Mae Weems exhibition at KBr Fundació MAPFRE

The magazine bonart will draw among its subscribers 12 double tickets to visit the exhibition of Carrie Mae Weems at KBr Fundació MAPFRE Barcelona Photo Center . The visit will take place on December 15 at 5:30 p.m. With this raffle, bonart magazine wants to celebrate Christmas with its subscribers, thanking them for their loyalty and sharing the visit to one of the season's photographic exhibitions in Barcelona.

Carrie Mae Weems A great turn within the possible chronologically reviews the work of the photographer CM Weems (Portland, Oregon, 1953), best known for the photographic work she has been developing for nearly forty years. Since her beginnings, Carrie Mae Weems has explored themes related to gender identity, sometimes from an intimate and familiar point of view, as in the series Family Pictures & Stories, understanding the domestic space as the place to present matters related to tradition, family, monogamy or personal relationships. This type of work presents us with an artist with a strong political commitment who reflects on the uses and abuses of power in the private sphere. But Weems doesn't just stay in the private space. In his series on Africa, he reflects on how throughout history the Other has been seen, understood as that which is not part of a dominant, white culture, which has created narratives regarding race, gender and class that are not they correspond with the reality of this other and convey a story of oppression and racism. It is these historical narratives that Weems tries to rework with his work.

Weems' work transcends the particular and reflects on a complex past that projects hopefully into the future and connects multiple generations. Often in her works, the artist presents herself as a new narrator of history, sometimes literally, because she photographs herself from the back in many scenes, as an anonymous character, a woman, a black body present/ absent in a performative attitude that has always accompanied her since she studied dance at the beginning of her career.

Carrie Mae Weems lives and works in Syracuse, New York, and began her artistic career in 1974 studying photography and design at the City College of San Francisco. A year later she traveled to Europe and, on her return, in 1978, she began working as an assistant in Anthony Barboza's studio and researching black artists in depth, among whom the figure of Roy DeCarava captivated her . Between 1984 and 1987 he studied folklore at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1993-1994 he moved to Paris, where he received his first major commission, from Weston Naef and the Getty Museum. She is currently one of the most recognized living artists on the American art scene thanks to a complex body of work that includes different disciplines, such as photography, text, audiovisuals, installations, digital images, performance or video. He has participated in numerous individual and collective exhibitions, for example at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in New York; at the Frist Center for Visual Arts, in Nashville; or, in Spain, at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, among many other places.