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Carmen Winant's expanded photographic practice incorporates found images to create large scale collages, sculptures, artist books and installations that question the representation of women in contemporary society. The artist's feminist research-based practice employs craft techniques, repetition and unexpected correlations to probe notions of embodiment, feminine power, intimacy, mundanity, and corporeality.
A Guggenheim fellow in photography, Winant has exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney, Photo Elysée, Aperture Foundation, FOMU Antwerp, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, ICA Boston, Sculpture Center and many others. Her numerous artist books have won awards including the 2024 Author Book Award at the Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards.
Winant's work is held in major collections including The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico city and others. -
This body of work began before the pandemic. I had no idea that the ground that held it together — togetherness, bodies physically touching other bodies — would shift beneath us. As the isolation set in, I continued to collect material and attend to the studio every day, listening to the news as I cut image after image and drew for the first time in many years. At the heart of everything is the promise of communion: the merging of multiple bodies into one body. I am a secular, atheistic Jew for whom that word, and its ritual, takes shape outside of religiosity. Communion is unfolded here for its spiritual, sensual and political capabilities (realms that have always intermingled), unfolding: how do we find affinity? How — the work of aliveness — do we consume each other? And how to make art about physical contact in a world that disallows it?
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At its outset, this was a way of memorizing physical closeness in all of its forms. Then the ground shifted again: thousands of bodies began to move together — to become one body, as with any fortified political movement— across the streets of America and our world protesting the poison of white supremacy. Its communion surprised me but shouldn’t have: togetherness is never apolitical, never unhitched from power and self realization, never without agitation and joy.
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The works' shape and framing is derived from mandala designs recovered from books of feminism, healing, and New Age. The spontaneous, diagrammatic forms are meant to represent an entire cosmos, made up of infinite constituencies: a cosmic model for wholeness through interwoven, and often parallel, parts.
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Recent Exhibitions and News
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CARMEN WINANT | WHITNEY BIENNIAL
GROUP EXHIBITION 11 Août 2024Carmen Winant expose son installation à grande échelle The Last Safe Abortion (2023) dans le cadre de la Biennale du Whitney 2024, la plus longue enquête sur l'art contemporain aux... -
CARMEN WINANT | RENCONTRES D'ARLES
BOOK AWARD WINNER 1 Juillet 2024Carmen Winant a remporté le prix de l'auteur aux Rencontres d'Arles 2024 pour The Last Safe Abortion (2024). Se concentrant sur la période de près de cinquante ans pendant laquelle... -
CARMEN WINANT | MOMA
GROUP EXHIBITION 18 Mars - 19 Août 2018Carmen Winant a participé à l'exposition collective Being : New Photography au Museum of Modern Art de New York en 2018, sous la direction de Lucy Gallun. Elle y a... -
CARMEN WINANT | MOCA
COLLECTION 28 Avril 2024Les œuvres de la série Togethering (2020) de Carmen Winant sont conservées dans la collection permanente du Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles et ont été exposées dans le cadre... -
CARMEN WINANT | NEW YORK TIMES
COMMISSION 29 Janvier 2023Le New York Times a commandé Carmen Winant de produire une œuvre originale sur la violence des armes à feu aux états-unies. Une photographie du collage de l'artiste a fait... -
CARMEN WINANT | ARTFORUM
PRESS 10 Janvier 2021Dans Artforum , Zoë Lescaze écrit sur la série Togethering (2020) de Carmen Winant. Le toucher est notre premier professeur. Bien avant que le langage ne s'installe, nous absorbons les...
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CARMEN WINANT | TOGETHERING
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