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Podcast: EMPIRE LINES
Episode: Africa Series, Carrie Mae Weems (1993) (EMPIRE LINES x Kunstmuseum Basel)
Description: Curator Alice Wilke transports from Switzerland to sub-Saharan cities in Africa, tracing Carnival traditions across continents, via Carrie Mae Weems’ 20th century wallpapers, ceramic plates, and photographs.In 1993, the North American artist Carrie Mae Weems undertook a ‘pilgrimage’ to West Africa to discover her heritage. With photographs of historic architectures, former slave sites, and colonies, she seeks to retell histories about the origins of civilisation - but ones which also highlight her position as a contemporary artist practicing from a diaspora.As The Evidence of Things Not Seen - the final stop on Weems’ current ‘world tour...