The artist
Carmen Winant is a writer and visual artist who explores representations of women through collage, mixed media and installation. She is the Roy Lichtenstein Endowed Chair of Studio Art at The Ohio State University and has been a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography.
Winant utilizes installation and collage strategies to examine feminist modes of survival and revolt. Her recent projects have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Sculpture Center, The Columbus Museum of Art, and The Wexner Center of the Arts. Winant's artist books - My Life as a Man and My Birth - were published by Horses Think Press, SPBH Editions, and ITI press; the artist book "The Last Safe Abortion" has been published by Printed Matter Inc in 2024. Winant's work has been written about in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BOMB, The Guardian, and Art in America.
In 2019, Winant published with Printed Matter the book Notes on Fundamental Joy; seeking the elimination of oppression through the social and political transformation of the patriarchy. She lives in Columbus, OH, with her partner and her two sons.
The last Safe Abortion
The almost 2,700 prints Carmen Winant has assembled here form a collective portrait of the ordinary, daily tasks required to provide abortion health care - a project that became much more urgent with the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. Winant worked across the Midwest and the South with the archives of special collections, university hospitals, but predominantly with clinics to collect photographs of staff, physicians, and volunteers taken over a fifty-year period. She arranged the photographs so that they have a visual rhythm, which she refers to as "a tapestry with warp and weft," that draws the eyes to groupings that present brief vignettes. No real patients appear here— in some cases, images show clinic staff modeling as patients. Every sitter pictured from recent years has given their permission to appear in this installation at the Biennial, and all archives were approved for use in the artist's project. This is important to Winant; she thinks of the process of building trust and community as an essential part of the work itself. The 2024 Whitney Biennial is organized by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator and Meg Onli, Curator at Large, with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes. The performance program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curator Taja Cheek. The film program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curators Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Greg de Cuir Jr, and Zackary Drucker.
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The Whitney Biennial
The eighty-first edition of the Whitney Biennial - the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States - features seventy-one artists and collectives grappling with many of today's most pressing issues. This Biennial is like being inside a "dissonant chorus," as participating artist Ligia Lewis described it, a provocative yet intimate experience of distinct and disparate voices that collectively probe the cracks and fissures of the unfolding moment.
The exhibition's subtitle, Even Better Than the Real Thing, acknowledges that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is complicating our understanding of what is real, and rhetoric around gender and authenticity is being used politically and legally to perpetuate transphobia and restrict bodily autonomy. These developments are part of a long history of deeming people of marginalized race, gender, and ability as subhuman—less than real. In making this exhibition, we committed to amplifying the voices of artists who are confronting these legacies, and to providing a space where difficult ideas can be engaged and considered.
This Biennial is a gathering of artists who explore the permeability of the relationships between mind and body, the fluidity of identity, and the growing precariousness of the natural and constructed worlds around us. Whether through subversive humor, expressive abstraction, or non-Western forms of cosmological thinking, to name but a few of their methods, these artists demonstrate that there are pathways to be found, strategies of coping and healing to be discovered, and ways to come together even in a fractured time.
The 2024 Whitney Biennial is organized by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator and Meg Onli, Curator at Large, with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes. The performance program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curator Taja Cheek. The film program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curators Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Greg de Cuir Jr, and Zackary Drucker.
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Published on August 10, 2024
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