Carment Winant participated in the group exhibition Being: New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2018, curated by Lucy Gallun. She showed her work My Birth (2018), which in now in MoMA's permanent collection.
This work is composed of over two thousand images of women preparing for and in the process of labor and childbirth. Winant is conscious of the ways the work of women is both visible and invisible: the activities shown here are widespread and essential, and yet pictures of them are not common, even in our image-saturated culture. The artist sourced masses of material from diverse books and magazines, many from several decades past, including those aimed at empowering women (such as Our Bodies, Ourselves, first published in 1971). She acquired some imagery by sifting through the inventory of used bookstores and mining the offerings at garage and estate sales.
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